Longreach, Australia
Qantas Founders Museum
The museum describes the story of how an Australian airline with a single biplane became one of the biggest in the world.
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Longreach, Australia
The museum describes the story of how an Australian airline with a single biplane became one of the biggest in the world.
Birdsville, Australia
A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.
Seventeen Seventy, Australia
A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.
Valentine Plains, Australia
For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Lord Howe Island, Australia
In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.
Araluen, Australia
Australia's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to bones.
Port Arthur, Australia
It's said that visitors can "see" Tasmania inside this cave.
Fortescue, Australia
Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.
Hobart, Australia
The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Hobart, Australia
Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.
Styx, Australia
Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.
Manly, Australia
The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.
Brisbane, Australia
Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.
Mintaro, Australia
An opulent mansion that acted as the set for Appleyard Girls School in the 1975 classic film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock.'
Waddamana, Australia
The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.
Steppes, Australia
These bronze sculptures can be found in an isolated patch of bush in Tasmania’s highlands.
Gumeracha, Australia
You can climb to the top of the world's largest rocking horse.
Tailem Bend, Australia
This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.
Liena, Australia
A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.
West Ballina, Australia
There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.
Kingston SE, Australia
A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.
Ballandean, Australia
Originally made for a fruit festival in the area in 1998 this was then erected outside the railway station and is now one of Australia’s iconic “Big Things” right at the side of the highway.
Ballandean, Australia
A huge stone pyramid built for fun.