The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

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

Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

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

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

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

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

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

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

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.