Puzzling World, New Zealand
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Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wanaka, New Zealand. It started out as just a maze in 1973, but over the years expanded to accommodate a "puzzling café" where guests could try out several puzzles, rooms with optical illusions, the Leaning Tower of Wanaka (which has a backwards clock that was started on the eve of the new millennium) and other things. The operators of Puzzling World have for many years offered a monetary prize for anybody who can prove themselves to have psychic powers; all a potential winner needs to do is use their powers to locate a specific item buried somewhere in Wanaka's environs. To date the prize goes unclaimed, although only 6 'professional' psychics have attempted the challenge. The biggest challenge, a huge maze in which the traveller must reach four towers while navigating the maze.
[edit] The Leaning Tower of Wanaka
The Leaning Tower of Wanaka is, as the name implies, a tower that is seemingly impossibly balanced on one corner, making the whole structure lean at an angle of 53 degrees to the ground. Exactly how this is achieved is yet to be unveiled, but one suspects that some kind of counterbalance or anchoring device has been used. Nevertheless, it is still an imposing and mystifying exhibit to behold, and one that intrigues the over 160,000 visitors a year to the Puzzling World of Stuart Landsborough in Wanaka, New Zealand.
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