This giant trout was made by a singular fisherman who wanted to honor his local trade.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

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

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

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

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

This copper-coated, multi-arched dome is surrounded by a moat and lights up at night.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

The King is honored by an elaborate grotto on a continent he never visited.

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

One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.

For better or worse, this whimsical sculpture garden was a favorite place of Rupert Murdoch's.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.

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

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.