Places acrig Wants to Go

The remains of a failed attempt to regulate Mitchell River.

Dedicated to a strange, local cryptid beloved by all.

A potpourri of rocks, fossils, and crystals is rounded out by a dinosaur garden and a 15-foot great white shark.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

This museum is home to one of the largest private collections of seashells in Australia.

This area was created to save the region's koala population.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

At Ramahyuck, the Gunaikurnai people were forced to trade their freedom and culture for protection. Today, a cemetery is all that remains of the site.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

This lonely gravestone beside an auto parts store is a reminder of the hardships of a pioneering past.

Only five people are buried in this tiny cemetery in Wilsons Promontory National Park.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

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

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

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

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

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.