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Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A beautiful display of nearly 50 bells crafted with a unique design and distinct sound.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.