Places davidhughes Wants to Go

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

Inspired by the local football team, this giant ant is meant to draw tourists to a tiny Australian town.

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

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

In the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, this marker marks the severe haven of War Kangaroos that once roamed here in the fictional parallel world of Kcymaerxthaere.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

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

An Australian novelist's cozy coastal retreat, turned campground.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.

Dine aboard the historic Ghan train while retracing early explorers' journey through the Outback.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.