Places redpessima Wants to Go

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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