Magnetic Island, Australia
Magnetic Island
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
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Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Landsborough, Australia
This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.
Quailburn, New Zealand
Towering earthen formations that rise straight out of the ground in New Zealand .
Wanaka, New Zealand
A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.
Wanaka, New Zealand
New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.
Cardrona, New Zealand
Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.
Arrowtown, New Zealand
This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.
Taroona, Australia
For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.
Taroona, Australia
The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.
Sandy Bay, Australia
This small seaside reserve supposedly inspired a young Errol Flynn to take the nautical adventures that would define him on and off the silver screen.
Battery Point, Australia
Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.
Hobart, Australia
The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.
Hobart, Australia
Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.
Hobart, Australia
Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.
Queens Domain, Australia
The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.
Sandy Bay, Australia
A hidden gem of Hobart’s past, now a park with panoramic views and plenty of history.
South Hobart, Australia
The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.
Berriedale, Australia
This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.
Richmond, Australia
It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.
Richmond, Australia
A small museum dedicated to taking the taboo out of all things related to poo.
Promised Land, Australia
A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.
Sheffield, Australia
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.