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

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

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

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

What began as a makeshift lost and found, now exists as a unique art installation.

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

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.