A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A quirky hardware store filled with museum-worthy cars and motorcycles, including a motorcycle that set a land speed record in 1967.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

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

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

This wooden chair dates possibly back to the 15th century, and commemorates a local legend.