Places cotymela Wants to Go

Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.

This ancient rock shelter features cave art and is one of the most culturally important sites in the country.

One of the most successful gold mines of the Victorian gold rush.

Now a museum, this was once a prison facility and a hospital for the “criminally insane.”

Housed in a refurbished gas station, this small museum is a tribute to the inventor of Vegemite.

This stone obelisk commemorates the discovery of the world's largest gold nugget.

The Collingwood production facility for a department store that was among the largest and earliest in Australia.

This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.

Children's author May Gibbs's beloved stories about the tiny, human-like "Gumnut Babies" are immortalized in bronze.

This classic photo booth was saved from destruction by the local community.

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

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

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

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

Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

A Norman church with some of England's best-preserved medieval wall paintings

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.