An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

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

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Come for the bait, stay for the brioche.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The world's first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary is a haven for New Zealand's rare and endangered species.

A mysterious castle "in the clouds" has had many lives including a radar bunker, dog hotel, and conference center.

One of the iconic moai of Rapa Nui stands guard in Lyall Bay as a symbol of the friendship between New Zealand and Chile.

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

The only known remains of an extensive Maori settlement are preserved underneath an apartment building.

This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.

This 800-year-old Rimu tree may be the oldest of its kind in the world.

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

This ledge in Victoria Park served as a hiding spot for Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

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

Journey through time by touring Wellington's oldest original cottage.

This fine-dining restaurant features native New Zealand ingredients and Māori cooking.

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

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