High winds can make this one scary landing.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Every hour a secret compartment drops from this giant pocket watch, revealing a lovely surprise.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This historic Australian bridge was built by convicts with giant stone spikes to prevent cattle from falling off the sides.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

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

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.