Places daratheodora Wants to Go

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

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

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

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

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

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.

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

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

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.