North Coogee, Australia
The South Fremantle Power Station
The ruins of a once prosperous power station have become a mouldering seaside gem.
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Adelaide, Australia
Santos Museum of Economic Botany
A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.
Adelaide, Australia
Something Wild
This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.
Melbourne, Australia
Fairies Tree
A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.
Melbourne, Australia
Victoria Police Museum
Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.
Sheffield, Australia
Tasmania's 'Town of Murals'
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.
Melbourne, Australia
The Nicholas Building
A beautiful 1920s tower filled with local hidden gems.
Landsborough, Australia
Dularcha Rail Tunnel
This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.
Box Hill, Australia
Box Hill Brick Works
A local landmark that has become a hub of graffiti and urban exploration.
Leonora, Australia
Gwalia Ghost Town
This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.
Coober Pedy, Australia
Crocodile Harry's Underground Nest & Dugout
This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.
Melbourne, Australia
The Johnston Collection
A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.
Melbourne, Australia
Coop's Shot Tower
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Sydney, Australia
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Port Arthur, Australia
Port Arthur Penal Colony
Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.
Australia
Macquarie Island
One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.
The Caves, Australia
Capricorn Caves
A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
Mount Surprise, Australia
Undara Lava Tubes
White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.
Christmas Island, Australia
Crabs of Christmas Island
The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.
Townsville, Australia
Museum of Underwater Art
A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.
Promised Land, Australia
Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot
A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne GlowGolf Docklands
Putt your way around Australia in a black light environment.
Two Rocks, Australia
Atlantis Marine Park
An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.
Ventnor, Australia
Penguin Parade At Phillip Island
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
