Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

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

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.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

Sleepy Minneapolis block beats Guinness Record for most churches on one city block.

Downtown Minneapolis mixed art and function by turning some of their sewer covers into works of art.

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

Minnesota's highest point is a scenic vista marked by a plaque and armies of mosquitoes.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.