Places christiesmiles Wants to Go

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.

The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.

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

The largest model carrot in the world.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

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

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

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

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

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

Large World War II gun emplacements and tunnel systems remain hidden near a remote end of Waiheke Island.

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

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