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

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

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

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

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

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

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

One of New Zealand’s few castles boasts beautiful gardens, grand architecture, and a history filled with family drama.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.