Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s New Zealand in 1887. Two men push an unsteady raft into a stream, just where it vanishes into a rift in the Earth. Opaque ...

The glowworm is the larval stage of a fungus gnat found only in New Zealand. Through a chemical reaction between luciferin and the enzyme luciferase, it produces cold blue-green light. This ...

The ancient caves in the village of Waitomo were first explored more than a century ago, by a Maori chief and a surveyor. Today, visitors can take a boat tour of the caverns’ lower level. Many of the ...

From glowing caves to mirror like salt flats, some places on Earth appear so surreal that they seem straight out of a fantasy ...