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

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

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

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

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

A quirky hardware store filled with museum-worthy cars and motorcycles, including a motorcycle that set a land speed record in 1967.

A giant chain sculpture that plays on the Māori myth that Rakiura (Stewart Island) is an anchor stone chained to the South Island.

This faded sign to nowhere is a beloved icon in New Zealand.

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

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

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

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

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

High winds can make this one scary landing.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.