Places Mortuarism Wants to Go

Enjoy all the trappings from 1912 aboard this Titanic-themed restaurant.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

The world's first cageless zoo is working to save endangered Tasmanian devils.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

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

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

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

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

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.