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

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

A quirky hardware store filled with museum-worthy cars and motorcycles, including a motorcycle that set a land speed record in 1967.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

Constructed by the younger brother of George Washington.

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.