Hike the Tongariro Crossing

Sheer fiord of waterfalls and peaks.

Canada’s first national park: Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, the Icefields Parkway and a gondola up Sulphur Mountain.

Poetic landscape of lakes and fells.

Rift-valley site of the world’s oldest parliament, where the tectonic plates pull apart.

An active volcano you can ski in winter, with a hot acid lake in the crater.

A near-perfect cone on the Taranaki coast, so symmetrical it stood in for Mount Fuji on film.

Golden beaches and turquoise coves linked by New Zealand’s easiest Great Walk — kayak in, hike out.

Explore hydrothermal vents, lava domes, lakes, and volcanic peaks in Lassen Volcanic National Park.