Hamelin Pool, Australia
The Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
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Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Sydney, Australia
One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
Putty, Australia
Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Reids Flat, Australia
The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.
Melbourne, Australia
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Melbourne, Australia
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
Mena Creek, Australia
A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.
Parkes, Australia
This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.
Ghan, Australia
Curious crater remnants in the middle of the Australian outback.
Opalton, Australia
These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.
Callanna, Australia
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Callanna, Australia
Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.
Birdsville, Australia
A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.
Marazion, England
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Sandown, England
This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.
Seaview, England
This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Portland, England
This former quarry is now a vibrant labyrinth of magical in situ sculptures.
Downe, England
The Origin of On the Origin of Species.