New Zealand’s Parliament Buildings in Wellington include a house that is only half built. The grand steps and entrance were meant to sit in the middle, with an identical wing on each side. Only one side was finished, in 1922, and the other was left for when there was more money.

Later never came. When the government finally looked at completing it, the Prime Minister of the day was persuaded to build something more modern instead. The result is the Beehive, finished in 1977.

Ministers work together there rather than in their own departments, and your floor shows your rank. The Prime Minister is on level nine. Other Ministers are on floors four to seven.

VoiceMap’s two Wellington tours that stop here explain the carved pou at the foot of the steps and the markers in the forecourt where a pōwhiri, a formal Māori welcome, takes place. The Capital Stories tour also reports a ghost in the library’s basement.