Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

Australia's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to bones.

The haunting remains of a beautiful old plant nursery founded in the 1850s.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

This former psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest in Australia.

The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.

This area was created to save the region's koala population.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

This large lake in Central Australia contains an estimated 600 million tons of salt.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

It's home to the taxidermy remains of Peter, the dog who helped convict a murderer.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

Once an aquarium, this sanctuary now rescues sharks and rays from fishing nets.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

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

Olive’s garden serves up a seemingly endless helping of outback delights.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

An exhibit of endangered species confiscated from smugglers and passengers.

Outside the National Dinosaur Museum, dozens of dinosaur statues and sculptures claim the landscape.

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