New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

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

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

Nature's slip and slide.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

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

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

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.