Places jillsandrew Wants to Go

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.

This bronze memorial pays tribute to a local dog.

The oldest operating picture gardens in the world.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

A modest park memorial pays tribute to one of the Titanic's most revered storylines.

The tallest mountain in mainland Australia.

Honoring the annual National Cherry Festival.

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

Cooled, fractured lava formed this geometric rock feature.

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

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

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

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

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

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.