An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

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

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.

Nature's slip and slide.

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

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

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

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

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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."