Wittenoom, Australia
Wittenoom
A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Melbourne, Australia
Gog and Magog
These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.
Leonora, Australia
Gwalia Ghost Town
This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.
Melbourne, Australia
Cow Up a Tree
This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.
Birdsville, Australia
The Birdsville Hotel
A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.
Sydney, Australia
Waverley Cemetery
A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.
Lord Howe Island, Australia
Lord Howe Island's Time
In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Gold Coast Wax Museum and Chamber of Horrors
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Berriedale, Australia
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.
Adelaide, Australia
Grave of the Tamam Shud Man
Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.
Sydney, Australia
Justice and Police Museum
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
Wingen, Australia
Burning Mountain
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Callanna, Australia
Marree Man
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Ularring, Australia
Inside Australia
A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.
Two Rocks, Australia
Atlantis Marine Park
An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.
Permanently Closed
Davenport, Australia
Wycliffe Well
The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.
Marysville, Australia
Bruno’s Art and Sculpture Garden
A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.
Collector, Australia
Dreamer's Gate
One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.
The Caves, Australia
Capricorn Caves
A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
Arthurs Seat, Australia
The Enchanted Maze Garden
Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.
Sydney, Australia
'Forgotten Songs' Sound Sculpture
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
Parkville, Australia
Melbourne Medical Museum
Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.
Ansons Bay, Australia
Bay of Fires
Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.
Styx, Australia
Styx Valley Forest
Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.
