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Walk through abandoned anti-Russian military tunnels on this volcano at the head of Auckland Harbor.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

Nature's slip and slide.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

An archway adorned with vulnerable flora and fauna.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

This massive boulder was hurled into a Zurich church when a gunpowder depot was struck by lightning in 1652.

A 30-foot-high stream of chocolate flows continuously at the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.