Australia and New Zealand have lots of worthy places to be photographed. Are these places the most photographed in the world?

Google a heat map showing the world's most photographed places in the world based on the photos uploaded via Google's Panoramio. It hooks up the images with locations in Google Earth and Google maps. The results of the algorithms and the heat map itself can be seen in Sightsmap.

The smart markers feature automatically features the top 10 places and more places can be seen by toggling the places menu. Rankings can be seen according to the visible area.

The most-photographed areas are highlighted in yellow on the map with the next-in-rank filled in color orange, then pink and purple last.

New York is the most photographed city in the world, according to The Daily Mail, with "more images of New York landmarks and scenes have been uploaded via Panoramio than any other city." Following in the list are the cities of Rome, Barcelona, Paris and Istanbul.

In Australia-New Zealand area, Melbourne is the "most-photographed" city, followed by Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Wellington in New Zealand.

Rounding out the top 10 most photographed cities in the area are Adelaide, Cairns, ABC Southwest WA, Auckland in New Zealand and Suva in Fiji.

Aside from the famous tourist spots such as Soverign Hill and the Cricket Ground, Melbourne is the venue of this year's Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena. This event may have helped the city outshine Sydney, which is known for its Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

Wellington, on the other hand, is New Zealand's capital city known for tourist spots used as locations for film shoots, most notable of which is the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit" series.