Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

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

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

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

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

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

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

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.