Places AS Wants to Go

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

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

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

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

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.