What to see in New Zealand

38 places, from the most famous to the lesser known, with how many ScratchyMapp travelers have visited them.

  • Abel Tasman National Park

    Abel Tasman National Park

    Marahau, Tasman

    Abel Tasman National Park is a national park at the north end of New Zealand's South Island. It covers 237.1 km2 (91.5 sq mi) of land between Golden Bay / Mohua and Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, making it the smallest…

  • Aoraki / Mount Cook

    Aoraki / Mount Cook

    Mount Cook Village, Canterbury

    Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It is situated in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island.

  • Auckland Harbour Bridge

    Auckland Harbour Bridge

    Auckland

    The Auckland Harbour Bridge is an eight-lane motorway bridge over Waitematā Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand. It joins St Marys Bay on the Auckland city side with Northcote on the North Shore side.

  • Cape Reinga Lighthouse

    Cape Reinga Lighthouse

    Cape Reinga, Northland

    Cape Reinga, officially Cape Reinga / Te Rerenga Wairua, is the northwestern most tip of the Aupōuri Peninsula, at the northern end of the North Island of New Zealand.

  • Castle Hill / Kura Tāwhiti

    Castle Hill / Kura Tāwhiti

    Castle Hill, Canterbury

    Castle Hill is a location and a high country station in New Zealand's South Island. It is located at an altitude of 700 metres, close to State Highway 73 between Springfield and Arthur's Pass.

  • Champagne Pool

    Champagne Pool

    Rotorua, Waikato

    Champagne Pool is a prominent geothermal feature within the Waiotapu geothermal area in the North Island of New Zealand.

  • Church of the Good Shepherd

    Lake Tekapo, Canterbury

  • Doubtful Sound / Patea

    Doubtful Sound / Patea

    Doubtful Sound, Southland

    Doubtful Sound / Patea is a fiord in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. It is located in the same region as the smaller but more famous and accessible Milford Sound / Piopiotahi.

  • Dunedin Railway Station

    Dunedin Railway Station

    Dunedin, Otago

    Dunedin railway station is a prominent landmark and tourist site in Dunedin, a city in the South Island of New Zealand.

  • Fiordland National Park

    Fiordland National Park

    Te Anau, Southland

    Fiordland is a non-administrative geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western third of Southland.

  • Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe

    Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe

    Fox Glacier, West Coast

    Fox Glacier is an 11.7-kilometre-long (7.3 mi) (2022) temperate maritime glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

  • Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere

    Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere

    Franz Josef, West Coast

    The Franz Josef Glacier is a 12-kilometre-long (7.5 mi) temperate maritime glacier in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

  • Hole in the Rock

    Bay of Islands, Northland

  • Huka Falls

    Huka Falls

    Taupō, Waikato

    Huka Falls is a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River, which drains Lake Taupō in New Zealand.

  • Lake Taupō

    Lake Taupō

    Taupō, Waikato

    Lake Taupō is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano. The lake is the namesake of the town of Taupō, which sits on a bay in the lake's northeastern shore.

  • Lake Tekapo

    Lake Tekapo

    Lake Tekapo, Canterbury

    Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand.

  • Lake Wānaka

    Lake Wānaka

    Wānaka, Otago

    Lake Wānaka is New Zealand's fourth-largest lake and the seat of the town of Wānaka in the Otago region. The lake is 300 meters above sea level, covers about 198 km2 (76 sq mi), and is more than 300 m (980 ft) deep.

  • Milford Sound / Piopiotahi

    Milford Sound / Piopiotahi

    Milford Sound, Southland

  • Mitre Peak

    Mitre Peak

    Milford Sound, Southland

  • Moeraki Boulders

    Moeraki Boulders

    Moeraki, Otago

  • Mount Ngauruhoe

    Whakapapa, Manawatū-Whanganui

  • Mount Ruapehu

    Whakapapa, Manawatū-Whanganui

  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

    Wellington

  • Pancake Rocks

    Punakaiki, West Coast

  • Pōhutu Geyser

    Rotorua, Bay of Plenty

  • Rakiura National Park

    Oban, Southland

  • Rangitoto Island

    Auckland

  • Roys Peak

    Wānaka, Otago

  • Sky Tower

    Auckland

  • Tāne Mahuta

    Waipoua Forest, Northland

  • Tasman Glacier

    Mount Cook Village, Canterbury

  • That Wānaka Tree

    Wānaka, Otago

  • The Beehive

    Wellington

  • The Remarkables

    Queenstown, Otago

  • Tongariro National Park

    Whakapapa, Manawatū-Whanganui

  • Waitomo Glowworm Caves

    Waitomo, Waikato

  • Larnach Castle

    Dunedin, Otago

  • Split Apple Rock

    Kaiteriteri, Tasman