This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

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

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

This quirky collection is an interactive exhibit crammed with creative contraptions and tinkered-with toys.

This deadly little sliver of beach has seen hundreds of whales beach themselves over the years.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."