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

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

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

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

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

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

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

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

Nature's slip and slide.

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

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

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

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

What began as a makeshift lost and found, now exists as a unique art installation.

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