Brisbane, Australia
The Pitch Drop Experiment
Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Rookwood, Australia
Rookwood Cemetery
The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.
Katoomba, Australia
Three Sisters
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.
Katoomba, Australia
The Giant Stairway
A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.
Parkes, Australia
Parkes Radio Telescope
This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.
Canberra, Australia
Phar Lap's Heart
The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.
Permanently Closed
Bass, Australia
Giant Earthworm Museum
"The Wonder From Down Under," a worm shaped museum celebrating the endangered Giant Gippsland earthworm.
Ventnor, Australia
Penguin Parade At Phillip Island
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
East Warburton, Australia
Redwood Forest Tree Art
Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.
Black Rock, Australia
HMVS Cerberus
Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.
Spotswood, Australia
Spotswood Pumping Station
A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.
Williamstown, Australia
Timeball Tower
An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.
Melbourne, Australia
Cow Up a Tree
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
South Wharf, Australia
Polly Woodside
This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.
Melbourne, Australia
Wunderkammer
The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.
Melbourne, Australia
Coop's Shot Tower
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Melbourne, Australia
Old Melbourne Gaol
Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.
Melbourne, Australia
Ned Kelly's Armour
The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.
Melbourne, Australia
Phar Lap
Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.
Melbourne, Australia
Captain Cook's Cottage
The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.
Clifton Hill, Australia
Clifton Hill Shot Tower
The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history.
Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne Storm Tunnels
The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.
