Places Hairywombat Wants to Go

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

A defensive fortification carved into a cliff near Sydney Harbour.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

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

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

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

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

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

A piece of Seattle’s historic Chinatown preserved inside a modern museum.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Every summer West Seattle experiences a housing bloom.