Places cotymela Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

This plaque commemorates an amazing 19th-century sea rescue.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

An opulent mansion that acted as the set for Appleyard Girls School in the 1975 classic film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock.'

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

A naturally heated pool steaming in the wild heart of Kosciuszko National Park.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

Only five people are buried in this tiny cemetery in Wilsons Promontory National Park.

Constructed in 1857, mourners used these towers to burn offerings of paper prayers and gifts for the afterlife.

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

This remnant of an old railroad is the tallest surviving wooden trestle bridge in Victoria.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

A poignant monument dedicated to a tragic 1930s plane crash.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

Inside this historical home are two panoramic murals of Sydney Harbour and Edinburgh.

This lone pillar is all that remains of a 19th-century asylum.

The gathering point of an old Melbourne swimming club was site of a historic, world-record dive in 1918.

Enjoy all the trappings from 1912 aboard this Titanic-themed restaurant.

A taste of Egypt on the outskirts of Geelong.

This artificial lake was built to provide water for a planned facility that would treat tuberculosis patients.