Places lapulyssa Wants to Go

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

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.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A journey through a collection of classic cars and fashionable artwork.

A mosaic armchair and ottoman built from china broken in the Christchurch earthquakes.

A coin-operated washing machine turned jukebox, complete with an outdoor dance floor.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.