A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.