You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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.

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

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This small Australian town is considered home to the "Yowie" or the Aussie Big Foot.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.