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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

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

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

A statue in a Canadian zoo remembers the WWI origins of the beloved character Winnie-the-Pooh.

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Iconic rock formations that allow for exploration during high or low tide.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

Recently revamped museum of Fijian history located within a gorgeous colonial-era garden.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.