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

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

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

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

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

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

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

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

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

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

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

Nature's slip and slide.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.