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

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

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

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.