Places nztraveller Wants to Go

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

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

An unusual snaking bank of boulders caused by longshore drift.

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

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A mosaic armchair and ottoman built from china broken in the Christchurch earthquakes.

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

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

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.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

This large lake in Central Australia contains an estimated 600 million tons of salt.

This backcountry hut was home to an asbestos miner and his wife for 40 years.

Towering earthen formations that rise straight out of the ground in New Zealand .

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

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

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

Nature's slip and slide.

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

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.