Places The Sitch Wants to Go

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.

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.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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.

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

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

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

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.