Places lizemaeve Wants to Go

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

These concrete crustaceans are actually public restrooms.

Large World War II gun emplacements and tunnel systems remain hidden near a remote end of Waiheke Island.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

What began as a makeshift lost and found, now exists as a unique art installation.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

A network of fortifications that never saw conflict.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

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

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

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

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