Places meltingknight Wants to Go

This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.

An outstanding and haunting glimpse of the horrors of the Great Famine of Ireland.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

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

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

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

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

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

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.