The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

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

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

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

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

Built for the 1962 World Cup, this fully functioning botanical clock is still ticking.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

A whimsical European-style chateau that calls the coast of Chile home.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.