Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Nature's slip and slide.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

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

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.