Places stonoceno Wants to Go

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

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

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

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

These delicate ruins need more tourists to keep them from fading away.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.