Places dmjacobs Wants to Go

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The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

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

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

Giant wheel of cheese marks a dairying village.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

A series of gun powder chambers currently hidden from view within Nobbys Headland in Newcastle, Australia.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

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

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

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

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

The first tourist attraction to offer tours for interstellar tourists.