This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

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

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

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.