Paddys River, Australia
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
Places I've been
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Paddys River, Australia
It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
Acton, Australia
With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.
Canberra, Australia
The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.
Bicheno, Australia
Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.
Freycinet, Australia
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.
Port Arthur, Australia
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Tocumwal, Australia
Fiberglass fish built in 1968 after months of fundraising.
Byaduk, Australia
These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.
Broken Hill, Australia
Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.
Dadswells Bridge, Australia
Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.
Robe, Australia
A simple tribute to the migrant workers who landed here before walking hundreds of miles to Victoria's gold mines.
Mount Gambier, Australia
An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.
Kingston SE, Australia
A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.
Tailem Bend, Australia
This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.
Gumeracha, Australia
You can climb to the top of the world's largest rocking horse.
Vista, Australia
The haunting remains of a beautiful old plant nursery founded in the 1850s.
Adelaide, Australia
Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.
Glenside, Australia
A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.
Adelaide, Australia
These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.
Adelaide, Australia
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.
Adelaide, Australia
A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.