Taroona, Australia
The Shot Tower Historic Site
For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.
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Taroona, Australia
For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.
Williamstown, Australia
An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.
Brisbane, Australia
Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Melbourne, Australia
Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.
Melbourne, Australia
A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.
Kingston SE, Australia
A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.
Melbourne, Australia
These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.
Melbourne, Australia
The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.
Melbourne, Australia
A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.
Dadswells Bridge, Australia
Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.
Melbourne, Australia
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Sheffield, Australia
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.
Melbourne, Australia
Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.
Fairfield, Australia
Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.
Bicheno, Australia
Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.
Melbourne, Australia
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Port Arthur, Australia
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Mount Gambier, Australia
An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.
Princetown, Australia
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."
Cervantes, Australia
Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.
Port Campbell, Australia
A clear example of the process of erosion in action.
Freycinet, Australia
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
Hatsukaichi, Japan
This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.
Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.