Swansea, Australia
Spiky Bridge
This historic Australian bridge was built by convicts with giant stone spikes to prevent cattle from falling off the sides.
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Swansea, Australia
This historic Australian bridge was built by convicts with giant stone spikes to prevent cattle from falling off the sides.
Taroona, Australia
The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.
Taroona, Australia
For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.
Sandy Bay, Australia
A hidden gem of Hobart’s past, now a park with panoramic views and plenty of history.
South Hobart, Australia
The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.
Battery Point, Australia
Located alongside the famous Salamanca Market and in sight of Parliament House, this large and elaborate monument is hard to miss, split into two sections and standing some 14 meters tall.
Hobart, Australia
Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.
Hobart, Australia
Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.
Hobart, Australia
Three women and a 10-year-old boy are immortalized in this sculpture memorializing the 13,000 women and children convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) between 1803 and 1853.
Queens Domain, Australia
The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.
Hobart, Australia
This urban stream flowing underneath Tasmania's capital city is also an unofficial gallery for street artists.
Richmond, Australia
It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.
Port Arthur, Australia
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Port Arthur, Australia
It's said that visitors can "see" Tasmania inside this cave.
Australia
This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.
Minyirr, Australia
Spectacular rock formations host dinosaur footprints and an old hydrotherapy pool.
Duranbah, Australia
Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.
Indooroopilly, Australia
The pillar of this bridge contains a small home and underneath, a ballroom.
Brisbane, Australia
Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.