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

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

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

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

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

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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

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

This semi-permanent cathedral was built of cardboard, wood, and steel after Christchurch's 2011 earthquake.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

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

The "punniest place on Earth” has nearly as many bull-themed puns as it does people.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Towering earthen formations that rise straight out of the ground in New Zealand .

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

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