Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

A heritage park that explores the history and ecology of Whangārei.

This small stone hut was once home to a gold prospector and his family.

An unsigned roadside spring that is pure fun.

The Catlins region has a bounty of breathtaking waterfalls, the best is arguably Koropuku Falls—a majestic waterfall with an enchanting bush walk.

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

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

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

Nature's slip and slide.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.