This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

The first tourist attraction to offer tours for interstellar tourists.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

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

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

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

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

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Though considered an eyesore by some, this boxy Brutalist high-rise plays a significant role in Sydney's past.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.