Places DE Wants to Go

Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

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

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

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

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

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

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

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

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

Melbourne's favorite bronze dog.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.

An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.

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