A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

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

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

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

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

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

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

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

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.