Wanaka, New Zealand
Puzzling World
New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Hampden, New Zealand
Moeraki Boulders
Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.
Waimangu, New Zealand
Lake Rotomahana
The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
Devil's Bath (Roto Karikitea)
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Takapō (Lake Tekapo)
A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.
Wanaka, New Zealand
That Wanaka Tree
A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Milford Sound
Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Waitomo Glowworm Caves
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Matamata, New Zealand
Hobbiton
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
Canberra, Australia
Phar Lap's Heart
The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.
Yeal, Australia
The Leaning Tower of Gingin
The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.
Melbourne, Australia
Phar Lap
Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.
Kalamunda, Australia
The Bibbulmun Track
A beautiful hike through national parks, forests and beaches in Western Australia.
Melbourne, Australia
Fairies Tree
A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
Big Banana
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Duranbah, Australia
Big Avocado
Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.
West Ballina, Australia
The Big Prawn
There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.
Hamelin Bay, Australia
Hamelin Bay Beach
Incredible rock formations jut from the southern end of this spectacular stingray-viewing spot.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Ularring, Australia
Inside Australia
A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.
Fraser Island, Australia
SS Maheno
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
The Caves, Australia
Capricorn Caves
A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
The Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Katoomba, Australia
Three Sisters
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
