The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of 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 preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

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

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

A stargazing sculpture made from the ruins of an iconic telescope.

With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.

A little-known museum of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek artifacts.

Children's playground hidden under a big pink and blue cap.

Outside the National Dinosaur Museum, dozens of dinosaur statues and sculptures claim the landscape.

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

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

A small mountain cave tucked away along Kings Highway has become a shrine to the beloved character.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.