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This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

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

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.