Places happysisyphus Wants to Go

Aboriginal artists carved these unique figures into sandstone.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

These Aboriginal fish traps are among the oldest human constructions in the world.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

This one-of-a-kind indie publisher-bookshop specializes in archiving historic red-light districts and niche cultural topics of the Shōwa era.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

A narrow, dead-end alley hides with a small fox shrine and the untold history of Yokohama's historic red-light district.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

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

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

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

A former drinking water storage reservoir transformed into a sunken garden.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

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

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

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

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.