Places piffeller Wants to Go

A hidden gem of a museum that lets you search for your own fossils.

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

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

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

An artistic garden environment of tile mosaic sculptures.

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

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

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

This quiet island in the middle of a bustling city is actually a volcano dotted with Māori ruins.

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

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

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

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

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

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

Nature's slip and slide.

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