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

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

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.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

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

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

This abandoned Antarctic base sits nearly unchanged since it was forsaken in the 1950s, just waiting for you to visit.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.