A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Small lakes provide outstanding reflective views of the Earl Mountains

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

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 is often compared to a potato on a skewer.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

On a teardrop-shaped island in the Danube, the ruins of a convent and the final resting place of a saint.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A controversial “crumpet”-shaped museum tries its best to blend in with surrounding parkland.