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

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

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

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

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

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

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

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

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.