This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

Can of beer on top of a Cobar hotel with a world record.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

A simple tribute to the migrant workers who landed here before walking hundreds of miles to Victoria's gold mines.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

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

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

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

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

This vestige of Seychelles’s colonial past now resides in a busy intersection and didn’t chime for its first 96 years.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

A massive trilithon nicknamed "Stonehenge of the Pacific."

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

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

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.