Places AS Wants to Go

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

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

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

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

This drowning bronze monument marks the spot where one of Australia's great engineers died by suicide.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

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

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

This beach provides a glimpse of the ancient seafloor without getting wet.

What began as a makeshift lost and found, now exists as a unique art installation.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

Celebrating the history of whiskey production during New Zealand's era of prohibition.