The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.

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

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

The sculpture shows a water rat turning the world upside-down, landing an elephant on its head.

This small Australian town is considered home to the "Yowie" or the Aussie Big Foot.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

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

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.