Hyams Beach, Australia
Hyams Beach
The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.
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Hyams Beach, Australia
The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.
Melbourne, Australia
A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.
Melbourne, Australia
Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.
Adelaide, Australia
Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.
Melbourne, Australia
A beautiful 1920s tower filled with local hidden gems.
Reids Flat, Australia
The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.
Melbourne, Australia
A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.
Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Melbourne, Australia
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Sheffield, Australia
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.
Sydney, Australia
A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.
Callanna, Australia
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Sydney, Australia
The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.
Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Sydney, Australia
It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.
Sydney, Australia
A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.
Box Hill, Australia
A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.
Sydney, Australia
An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.
Melbourne, Australia
A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.
Marysville, Australia
A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.
Sydney, Australia
The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.
Coober Pedy, Australia
This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.
Brisbane, Australia
Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.
Collector, Australia
One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.