Castlemaine, Australia
The Departure
An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Castlemaine, Australia
An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.
Myers Flat, Australia
Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.
Mia Mia, Australia
Dedicated to the first flight of an aircraft to be designed and built in Australia.
Bendigo, Australia
Direct access to a gold mine showing the boom and bust of Australia's Victorian gold rush.
Daylesford, Australia
This former convent has been reimagined as a community center for artists.
Franklinford, Australia
This Franklinford, Australia site was once home to one of the remotest churches of its faith—in the fictional world of the Kcymaerxthaere.
Maldon, Australia
A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.
Maldon, Australia
These two large, rusting pieces of machinery are relics of Australia’s gold mining past.
London, England
A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.
London, England
The library houses an incredible collection of some of the world's most impressive books and manuscripts.
London, England
England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.
London, England
A series of carved figures that scandalized British society.
London, England
Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.
London, England
Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.
Nottingham, England
These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.
Nottingham, England
A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.
Chesterfield, England
A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.
Nottingham, England
The English Civil War began right here in 1642.
Dunbar, Scotland
The small Scottish townhouse where the "Father of the National Parks" was born.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This monument is dedicated to a young boy who survived a disaster that forced Edinburgh to reevaluate its building codes.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This 16th-century close preserves an unusual piece of Edinburgh's transportation history.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.