This 4.5-meter-tall statue of a native Australian bird marks Hydro Aluminium's 40th year in the area.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

An island off the coast of South Australia is home to the last purebred Ligurian bees.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

For better or worse, this whimsical sculpture garden was a favorite place of Rupert Murdoch's.

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Peanut butter trees and miracle berries are just the beginning.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.