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

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

A timber wharf that contributed to Echuca becoming the largest inland port in 19th-century Australia.

Constructed in 1857, mourners used these towers to burn offerings of paper prayers and gifts for the afterlife.

This gold mine–turned–swimming hole is the perfect summer picnic spot, immersed in nature and history.

A rare chance to enter an original gold mine from the 1800s.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

This small seaside reserve supposedly inspired a young Errol Flynn to take the nautical adventures that would define him on and off the silver screen.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

It's beautiful, it's haunted and its claim to fame is that it's the oldest existing stone arch bridge in Australia.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.