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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

The decorations were inspired by an unlikely missing treasure.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

An electrifying collection of gadgets and literature from the 16th through 20th centuries.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This little Vancouver shack is a temple to all things Hendrix.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.