Places Will Wants to Go

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

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

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

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

This remote highway took over 50 years to build.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

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Nature's slip and slide.

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

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

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.