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.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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

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

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."