Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

Large World War II gun emplacements and tunnel systems remain hidden near a remote end of Waiheke Island.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

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

Nature's slip and slide.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.