Nature's slip and slide.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauo tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku pokaiwhenuakitanatahu.

A New Zealand rubbish dump named after British comedian John Cleese.

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

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

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

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

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

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

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

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

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

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

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.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

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

An early 19th-century English style garden hidden in the Rotterdam cityscape.