Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

It's home to the taxidermy remains of Peter, the dog who helped convict a murderer.

The oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

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

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

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

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

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

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

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

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

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

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

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

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

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