This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

A statue of a Scottish cultural icon in central Sydney.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.