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Gavin

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Mirror Lakes

Te Anau, New Zealand

Mirror Lakes

Small lakes provide outstanding reflective views of the Earl Mountains

RAAF Base Point Cook and RAAF Museum

Point Cook, Australia

RAAF Base Point Cook and RAAF Museum

The oldest continually operating military airfield in the world

The dog line information sign

Eaglehawk Neck, Australia

The Dog Line

A life-sized statue marks the spot of the 100-meter-wide "neck" that leads to the Tasman Peninsula, and the convict penal settlement was once guarded by a line of ferocious and savage dogs

Stone carving at the entrance to the Sidney Chapel featuring the porcupine family crest of the Sidneys

Penshurst, England

Penshurst Medieval Dole Table

A rare stone ledge where the poor once received their share in the churchyard

Information panel #2

Leongatha, Australia

Statue of Lennie Gwyther and His Horse Ginger Mick

Commemorating the nine-year-old and his pony's 965 kilometers solo ride to Sydney in 1932 for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Princes Pier terminal building

Port Melbourne, Australia

Princes Pier

Once an arrival port for post-war migrants, this pier is now a forest of pylons in the bay and a popular spot for fishing and a backdrop for wedding photos

The wooden front beacon and a ship leaving port

Port Melbourne, Australia

Port Melbourne Lighthouses

A pair of beacons from the 1920s guide ships steering a course to Melbourne.

Dalkeith Tolbooth

Dalkeith, Scotland

Dalkeith Tolbooth

This building has been a courtroom, a prison, and the location of the last public hanging in Dalkeith.

Beau Brummell statue.

London, England

Beau Brummell Statue

A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.

Grave of Will Keith Kellogg

Battle Creek, Michigan

Graves of the Kellogg Brothers

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

marker and information panel

Thorpdale, Australia

Site of the World's Tallest Tree

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

HMVS Victoria Swivel Link

Queenscliff, Australia

HMVS Victoria Swivel Link

All that remains of the first colonial naval ship in Australia is located in a park in Queenscliff.

Memorial

Kowen, Australia

1940 Canberra Air Disaster Memorial

This memorial marks the site of not only of a tragic wreck, but an event that led to the downfall of a wartime government.

Goodman’s Fields Horses

London, England

Goodman’s Fields Horses

Metal horses galloping through a London fountain provide a link to the city's past.

White ibis at Coburg Lake Reserve

Melbourne, Australia

Bin Chicken Island

This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.

The Little Grave

Traralgon, Australia

The Little Grave

This lonely gravestone beside an auto parts store is a reminder of the hardships of a pioneering past.

Castle Cary Round House

Somerset, England

Castle Cary Round House

One of the best-preserved examples of an old town lock-up in the country.

Geoffrey Chaucer Statue

Canterbury, England

Geoffrey Chaucer Statue

Inspired by Thomas Stothard's painting of the "Journey to Canterbury," albeit with Canterbury natives.

Pathway through St Magnus

London, England

Remains of the Old London Bridge

Only a few pieces remain of the structure that carried people and goods across the Thames for some 600 years.

Lionel Rose Statue

Warragul, Australia

Lionel Rose Statue

A monument to the first Aboriginal Australian to win a world boxing title.

Semaphore Time Ball Tower

Semaphore, Australia

Semaphore Time Ball Tower

This stone tower was built in the late 19th century to signal the time to ships in the water.

Dan Morgans Grave

Wangaratta, Australia

Grave of Daniel "Mad Dog" Morgan

The burial site of one of the most notorious bushrangers in Australia's history.

Wishing well.

Kingswear, England

Kingswear Wishing Well

Successful single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world in a sailing boat was a wish said to be granted at the well.

Victorian Bath House sign

London, England

Victorian Bath House

This 19th-century Turkish bath house survived the Blitz of London and is now an events venue.

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