A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.

Medical museum that houses most notably the taxidermied remains of Vladimir Demikhov's famous two-headed dog experiment.

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

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

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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.