Places Aunty Annie Wants to Go

This bell was once used to summon rescue crews when ships fell victim to the treacherous waterways.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

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

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

Outside the National Dinosaur Museum, dozens of dinosaur statues and sculptures claim the landscape.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

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

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

A somber memorial to the seven victims of a horrible crime.

This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

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

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

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

Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

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

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.