This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.

A monument to a working class martyr.

One of the world’s oldest surviving convict prisons, once the scene of daring escapes and riots.

The last vestiges of this ship are mostly buried beneath the sand dunes.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Created as a coal reserve, it is today a natural park with stunning wildflowers, ancient marine fossils, and remnants of a 19th century mine.

This remote outpost hosts the remains of one of Australia's key sites in the history of convicted laborers.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

This public work of art pays tribute to an early Aboriginal Australian constellation pattern.

This rural Australian restaurant claims to be the only restaurant in the world to be built almost entirely of sea shells.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This remote historic museum tells the story of the early telecommunications systems in 1800s Australia.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

The oldest operating picture gardens in the world.

The final resting place for many Japanese divers who tragically lost their lives in the Australian pearling industry.

Spectacular rock formations host dinosaur footprints and an old hydrotherapy pool.

Critics argue this boab tree has been mislabeled for the sake of dark tourism, undermining its spiritual significance.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

This natural amphitheatre has been carved over millennia into the layered sedimentary rock of Karijini National Park.

A fibreglass sculpture of a whale shark on the grounds of a petrol station.