The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

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

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

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

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

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

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

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

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

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

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.