Once a popular hangout spot this huge mall was left to ruin after economic crash.

A crystal clear beach surrounded by beautiful coral reefs.

In ancient times, these fallen standing stones supported a massive house.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

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

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

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

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

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

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

One of the world's largest pianos is displayed in the workshop of the man who built it as a teenager.

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

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

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.