Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

More than 100 colorful residents stand post in this seaside Australian city.

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

The taxidermy remains of the mighty beast made famous by a Crocodile Dundee film.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

This giant Christ statue was a failed attempt by Indonesia to dissuade East Timor from demanding independence.