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

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.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

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

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

In an Auckland neighborhood, looming chopsticks lift noodles from the sidewalk.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

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

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

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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.

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

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.