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You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

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

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

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

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.

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

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

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.

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

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.