This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

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

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

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

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

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

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

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