Museums in Australia

A little-known museum of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek artifacts.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

The last timber and iron Chinese temple in Australia.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.