Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

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

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

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

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