Places 85wombats Wants to Go

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

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

One of ancient Etruria's most spectacular archaeological sites with impressive necropolises and rugged landscape.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.