Wellington, New Zealand
Hiakai
This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.
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Wellington, New Zealand
This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.
Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.
Lake Tarawera, New Zealand
A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.
Waipu, New Zealand
A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.
Ohaupo, New Zealand
One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Paris, France
A short distance from the Eiffel Tower is the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters.
New York, New York
Commemorating the spot where the famous scientist fed his pigeons.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Nanwei, Micronesia
The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
Vanuatu
This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.
Nouméa, New Caledonia
The best place to encounter plants and animals that can only be found in New Caledonia.
Tbilisi, Georgia
A cluster of historic bathhouses built on the famed hot springs that gave the Georgian capital its name.
Tbilisi, Georgia
The last standing example of an ancient district's teatime tradition.
Proaza, Spain
A mountain path passes by several sprawling enclosures home to a pair of rescued brown bears.
Cangas del Narcea, Spain
Head to the mountains to catch a glimpse of Spain's endangered subspecies of brown bear.
San Francisco, California
A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.
Cairo, Egypt
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Namibia
Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.
Chinsali, Zambia
A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.