Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

An unmarked, overgrown path through dense vegetation leads to the largest ancient structure in Polynesia.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Putt your way around Australia in a black light environment.

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

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

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

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

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

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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