An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

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

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.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

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

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.