Mounds of fine golden sand that can rise nearly 500 feet tall.

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

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

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

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

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

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

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

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

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

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

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

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

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