A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

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

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

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

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

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.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

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.