The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

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

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

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

The real life Hobbiton, this sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for The Hobbit film series.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.