After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.