Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Pivotal home of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.