Places tobbinator Wants to Go

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

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

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.