Augathella, Australia
Big Meat Ant
Inspired by the local football team, this giant ant is meant to draw tourists to a tiny Australian town.
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Augathella, Australia
Inspired by the local football team, this giant ant is meant to draw tourists to a tiny Australian town.
Hillvue, Australia
Monument that stands 40 feet and weighs 1,000 pounds.
Taree, Australia
Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.
Wingen, Australia
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Seventeen Seventy, Australia
A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.
Guyra, Australia
Monument to the area's potato and lamb industries.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Glen Innes, Australia
A tribute to the Celtic nations that helped settle Australia.
South Kolan, Australia
The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.
Boolboonda, Australia
The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.
Childers, Australia
This former hostel is now an art gallery and a memorial for 15 backpackers who lost their lives to a tragic act of arson.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Maryborough, Australia
A statue of the beloved storybook character stands in front of the building in which her creator was born.
Maryborough, Australia
A museum dedicated to the legacy of writer P.L. Travers and her most beloved character, Mary Poppins.
Ballandean, Australia
A huge stone pyramid built for fun.
Ballandean, Australia
Originally made for a fruit festival in the area in 1998 this was then erected outside the railway station and is now one of Australia’s iconic “Big Things” right at the side of the highway.
New Italy, Australia
Once a farming community founded by the Italian survivors of an immigration scam, this colony is now a free camp and roadside attraction.
West Ballina, Australia
There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.
Bells Bridge, Australia
A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.
Araluen, Australia
Australia's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to bones.
Duranbah, Australia
Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Kilcoy, Australia
This small Australian town is considered home to the "Yowie" or the Aussie Big Foot.
Manly, Australia
The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.