The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

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

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

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

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

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

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

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

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

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

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

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

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

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

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

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