Wallis & Futuna

A small, dramatically hilly island between Wallis and Futuna, nearly abandoned after an 1898 cyclone, with steep cliffs, dense forest and a handful of current residents.

A near-perfect volcanic crater lake on Wallis Island, its dark circular waters hemmed by steep forested walls and folklore about underground passages to the sea.

A freshwater lake in the central highlands of Wallis Island, surrounded by forested hills and traditional agricultural land, used for traditional food gathering.

The territorial capital's principal Catholic cathedral, built from local coral limestone in the 19th century, twin-towered and prominent on the Mata Utu waterfront.

The basilica built on the site of Saint Pierre Chanel's martyrdom in 1841, the patron saint of Oceania, on the island of Futuna near the village of Poi.

One of three main fortified sites on Wallis Island, built in the 15th to 16th centuries, with layered dry-stone terraces and platforms that housed a chief's household during times of conflict.