Places dmjacobs Wants to Go

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

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

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

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

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

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

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

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

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

Putt your way around Australia in a black light environment.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.