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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

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

New Zealand's most advertised nonexistent landmark

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

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

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

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

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

A giant chain sculpture that plays on the Māori myth that Rakiura (Stewart Island) is an anchor stone chained to the South Island.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

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

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.