Home to the oldest operating roller coaster in the Southern Hemisphere.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.