Tirau, New Zealand
Big Dog and Sheep
These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.
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Tirau, New Zealand
These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
Tumunui, New Zealand
An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.
Hamilton, New Zealand
The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."
Hamilton, New Zealand
A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.
Delaware, Ohio
A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.
Columbus, Ohio
The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.
Wellington, New Zealand
This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.
Wellington, New Zealand
This 800-year-old Rimu tree may be the oldest of its kind in the world.
Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand's only running funicular railway.
Hawaii
This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.
Kealakekua, Hawaii
A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.
Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Dawson, Pennsylvania
A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.
Arthurdale, West Virginia
The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Markleysburg, Pennsylvania
This original Mason-Dixon line cairn placed in the 1760s was put in the wrong location because of the gravitational pull of the Allegheny Mountains.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Morgantown, West Virginia
This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.
Morgantown, West Virginia
The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.
Farmington, Pennsylvania
The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.
Morgantown, West Virginia
A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.