Places caitlinhug7 Wants to Go

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

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

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.

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.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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