This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

Located on top of mines that run through Broken Hill.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

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

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

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

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

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

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

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

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