A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

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

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 real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A striking series of six bridges connect islands in Indonesia.

Mount Tambora is the site of the largest and deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded human history.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

A mostly desolate bar on a remote island hosts hundreds of sailors for a few days each year.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

These broken shards of ancient ruin may hide an ancient pyramid.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

A real-life "hobbit" cave in Flores, Indonesia.