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

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

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

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.