Places remcrae Wants to Go

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

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

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

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

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

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

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

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

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

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The southernmost Anglican cathedral in the world has whale bones standing in its yard.

An ever-growing field of footwear invites legends and more shoes.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.

A grotto replicating one of the world's most famed Marian apparitions sits across the ocean from the original.