This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

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

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

Referred to as "the crappiest fountain ever," this sculpture has been splashing unknowing passersby since 1969.

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

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

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

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

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

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

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

It took millions of years for these rocks to resemble their mammalian counterparts.