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Callanna, Australia

Mutonia Sculpture Park

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.

Eric the Pliosaur

Sydney, Australia

Eric the Pliosaur

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

Parkes Radio Telescope

Parkes, Australia

Parkes Radio Telescope

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

Specimens at the museum.

Adelaide, Australia

Santos Museum of Economic Botany

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

One of many cases of butterflies at the Daintree Entomological Museum.

Diwan, Australia

Daintree Entomological Museum

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

Archer's Arcadia

Glenelg, Australia

Archer's Arcadia

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

Just look for the shed full of books.
Permanently Closed

Bardon, Australia

Logical Unsanity Books & Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

Cairn at the top of Disappointment Rock

Norseman, Australia

Disappointment Rock

No one seems to know who suffered the disappointment at this particular place.

The interior.

Sydney, Australia

White Rabbit Gallery

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways

Opalton, Australia

Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

Cow up a Tree, Australian history and humor

Melbourne, Australia

Cow Up a Tree

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

The Academy of Taxidermy

Guildford, Australia

The Academy of Taxidermy

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

Model of Skylab outside Esperance Museum.

Esperance, Australia

Skylab’s Remains

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

The whale carving at Balls Head, Waverton.

Sydney, Australia

Aboriginal Carving of a Whale

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

Japanese lake with stone lantern. (Wikimedia Commons)

Cowra, Australia

Japanese War Cemetery and Garden

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

A rainbow over Lord Howe Island.

Lord Howe Island, Australia

Lord Howe Island's Time

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

March 2023

Ballandean, Australia

Ballandean Pyramid

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

'Licence Plate House'

Leonora, Australia

Gwalia Ghost Town

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

Waverley Cemetery

Sydney, Australia

Waverley Cemetery

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

Standing guard on the approaches to Government House

Reids Flat, Australia

Empire of Atlantium

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

Cloaca machine at MONA

Berriedale, Australia

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)

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

One of the "islands" in Lake Ballard as a backdrop to one of the figures

Ularring, Australia

Inside Australia

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.

The Maize Maze as seen from above.

Arthurs Seat, Australia

The Enchanted Maze Garden

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

Dreamer's Gate

Collector, Australia

Dreamer's Gate

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

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