Creswick, Australia
New Australasian No. 2 Deep Lead Gold Mine
The site of a tragic mining disaster in 1882.
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Creswick, Australia
The site of a tragic mining disaster in 1882.
Subiaco, Australia
A tribute to those who fled the Great Famine and relocated to Australia.
Geelong, Australia
A stuffed, prize-winning ram is all that remains of a world-renowned stud line, and a reminder of its owner's gruesome end.
Toowong, Australia
A most unusual war memorial, erected by some most unusual people, made of concrete and stained glass, and apparently honouring five people and a dog.
Ararat, Australia
Now a museum, this was once a prison facility and a hospital for the “criminally insane.”
Coorada, Australia
One of the biggest mysteries of Central Queensland: How did this truck spontaneously combust with the force of a massive bomb?
Maralinga Tjarutja, Australia
This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.
Exmouth, Australia
A fibreglass sculpture of a whale shark on the grounds of a petrol station.
Melbourne, Australia
A poignant memorial to remember the Australian nurses who lost their lives during the Second World War.
Cairns, Australia
This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.
Perry Bridge, Australia
At Ramahyuck, the Gunaikurnai people were forced to trade their freedom and culture for protection. Today, a cemetery is all that remains of the site.
Aireys Inlet, Australia
A tribute to one man's encounter with a frightening cryptid.
Pakenham, Australia
Dedicated to a strange, local cryptid beloved by all.
Brewarrina, Australia
These Aboriginal fish traps are among the oldest human constructions in the world.
Launceston, Australia
A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.
Box Hill, Australia
This former brickworks pit is full of legends about its murky depths.
South Hobart, Australia
The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.
Bells Bridge, Australia
A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.
Iguana Creek, Australia
Mind the rock monster at this cave.
Narrabundah, Australia
The largest piece of the Berlin Wall in the Southern Hemisphere sits outside this German social club in a Canberra suburb.
Mount Bundey, Australia
A Japanese sculptor carved an ode to biodiversity into a floodplain.
Melbourne, Australia
A striking bronze sculpture of a Roman goddess with two hound dogs for company.
Woomera, Australia
Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.
Hovea, Australia
This 1800s former railway tunnel is now part of a heritage walking trail.