Places The Sitch Wants to Go

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

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

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

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

Nature's slip and slide.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

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