Wanaka, New Zealand
That Wanaka Tree
A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.
Places CaveVex Wants to Go
2095
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Ohaupo, New Zealand
The Tree Church
One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.
Waiotapu, New Zealand
Devil's Bath (Roto Karikitea)
This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.
Castle Hill, New Zealand
Castle Hill
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Waitomo, New Zealand
Waitomo Glowworm Caves
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Matamata, New Zealand
Hobbiton
This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.
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Bass, Australia
Giant Earthworm Museum
"The Wonder From Down Under," a worm shaped museum celebrating the endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm.
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Castlemaine, Australia
The Departure
An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.
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Bundoora, Australia
Larundel Mental Asylum
Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.
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Davenport, Australia
Wycliffe Well
The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.
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Bardon, Australia
Logical Unsanity Books & Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria
This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.
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Melbourne, Australia
The Haunted Bookshop
Occult books, tarot, oddities.
Port Macquarie, Australia
Mid North Coast Fire Museum
A volunteer-run museum dedicated to past and present firefighting practices.
Myrtleford, Australia
Staff Nurse Elizabeth Rothery Memorial
Dedicated to the 63 local women who served the country during World War I.
Fannie Bay, Australia
Fannie Bay Gaol
One of Australia’s most complete colonial prison complexes.
Condamine, Australia
Condamine Bell
A giant version of an Australian town's claim to fame: a cowbell said to be audible from miles away.
Edrom, Australia
Davidson Whaling Station
The site where whalers teamed up with orcas to hunt baleen whales.
Canberra, Australia
Canberra Holodomor Memorial
A memorial that honors the victims of a tragedy in Ukraine.
Flinders Chase, Australia
Remarkable Rocks
Impressively shaped, perfectly balanced boulders perched on the edge of a sea-cliff.
Hobart, Australia
'Footsteps Towards Freedom'
Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.
Morven, Australia
Kerosene Tin Hut
These tin huts were commonplace in Australia during the Great Depression.
Bicheno, Australia
Wauba Debar’s Grave
The burial place of this Tasmanian Aboriginal woman is a memorial that remembers the atrocities of colonialism.
Melbourne, Australia
Headless King George V
This statue of King George V was beheaded as a protest of colonialism.
Fremantle, Australia
Fremantle Prison
One of the world’s oldest surviving convict prisons, once the scene of daring escapes and riots.
