An unsigned roadside spring that is pure fun.

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

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

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

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

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

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

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

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.