Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

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

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

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

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

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

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

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.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.