A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

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

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.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

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

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

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

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

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

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

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

A drowned river valley that was important to the Maori and European settlers.

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