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A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

This 800-year-old Rimu tree may be the oldest of its kind in the world.

Referred to as "the crappiest fountain ever," this sculpture has been splashing unknowing passersby since 1969.

These concrete crustaceans are actually public restrooms.

This ledge in Victoria Park served as a hiding spot for Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

The world's first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary is a haven for New Zealand's rare and endangered species.

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

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.