Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

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

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

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

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

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

One of the most extreme deserts in the world, these snow-free valleys harbor life, despite the hostile environment.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

An extraordinary library and archive dedicated to the history of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.