Places 85wombats Wants to Go

Home to the last shore-based whaling station in Australia.

A 100-foot-tall mural in South Australia.

A chunk of Skylab debris adorns this small museum at a roadside motel in Western Australia.

The point where New South Wales meets Queensland and South Australia.

Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.

A roadside replica of the largest single piece of gold ever found in Western Australia.

A super-sized wheelbarrow that sits at the roadside.

Originally made for a fruit festival in the area in 1998 this was then erected outside the railway station and is now one of Australia’s iconic “Big Things” right at the side of the highway.

Housed in a refurbished gas station, this small museum is a tribute to the inventor of Vegemite.

A tribute to the role camels played in the region's industrial development.

A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.

Swim in these hot springs filled with three-million-year-old water, deep in the Australian Outback.

Warm up from the freezing waters in this fully functional sauna in the middle of the Tasmanian wilderness.

One of the largest open-air museums in Western Australia.     

The La Trobe Swing Bridge was the first movable bridge constructed in Victoria.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

A memorial that honors the victims of a tragedy in Ukraine.

Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.

This small but unique site depicts part of an arguably underrepresented part of Australia's early connections to the seafaring communities to its north.

Once a welcome symbol for maritime travelers entering Edrom.

One of the breathing caves of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

These tin huts were commonplace in Australia during the Great Depression.

The burial place of this Tasmanian Aboriginal woman is a memorial that remembers the atrocities of colonialism.

A fibreglass sculpture of a whale shark on the grounds of a petrol station.