Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

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.

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

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

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

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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