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

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

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

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

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This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Gargoyle head that brings good luck.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.