Places 85wombats Wants to Go

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.