This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.

A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.

It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

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

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

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.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

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.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.