Nara, Japan
Buddha's Nostril
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
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Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Nara, Japan
This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
Broken Hill, Australia
Designed by artist Pro Hart, built elsewhere in 1980.
Cobar, Australia
Can of beer on top of a Cobar hotel with a world record.
Parkville, Australia
The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.
Tocumwal, Australia
Fiberglass fish built in 1968 after months of fundraising.
Burra, Australia
A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.
Broken Hill, Australia
Located on top of mines that run through Broken Hill.
Mount Barry, Australia
The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.
Melbourne, Australia
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Broken Hill, Australia
A modest park memorial pays tribute to one of the Titanic's most revered storylines.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Adelaide, Australia
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Green Island, Australia
Home of the world's largest crocodile.
Melbourne, Australia
Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.
Sheffield, Australia
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.
Davenport, Australia
The UFO capital of Australia is the outbackās answer to Roswell.
Broken Hill, Australia
Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.
Melbourne, Australia
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Mount Gambier, Australia
An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.
Sydney, Australia
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.