New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

A life-sized statue of a Tyrannosaurus rex made out of driftwood.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

A mosaic armchair and ottoman built from china broken in the Christchurch earthquakes.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

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

This small stone hut was once home to a gold prospector and his family.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

One of the iconic moai of Rapa Nui stands guard in Lyall Bay as a symbol of the friendship between New Zealand and Chile.

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

Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte fell in love with this Gothic church.

An ancient necropolis of magnificent tombs.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Inside the world's largest seed bank, WWII botanists elected to starve to death rather than compromise their collection.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.