Places White Rat Wants to Go

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

Western Australia’s heavenly staircase is not for the faint of heart.

The most easterly point on mainland Australia offers dramatic ocean views.

Hundreds of people walk past this palm tree every day without spotting its secret.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

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."