A mosaic armchair and ottoman built from china broken in the Christchurch earthquakes.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A winding staircase that appears to lead to nowhere is actually a diving platform into the Wellington Harbour.

These concrete crustaceans are actually public restrooms.

The remnants of a 1849 sunken ship lie underneath a building.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

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

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

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

Referred to as "the crappiest fountain ever," this sculpture has been splashing unknowing passersby since 1969.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

An art-filled botanical garden and former dyeworks hiding in plain sight.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Inside this cathedral is a shoulder bone belonging to the Patron Saint of Scotland.

This sculpture of disembodied body parts forms a poignant memory of the horrors of World War II.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.