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SS Maheno

Fraser Island, Australia

SS Maheno

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

Kiama Blowhole

Kiama, Australia

Kiama Blowhole

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Port Arthur Penitentiary

Port Arthur, Australia

Port Arthur Penal Colony

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

Installation by artist Michael Thomas Hill and research scientist Dr. Richard Major.

Sydney, Australia

'Forgotten Songs' Sound Sculpture

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Royal Botanic Gardens

Sydney, Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

(Flickr/F.d.W.)

Davenport, Australia

Devil's Marbles

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Three Sisters

Katoomba, Australia

Three Sisters

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Warning signs at the Phillip Island penguin site

Ventnor, Australia

Penguin Parade At Phillip Island

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Twelve Apostles March 2019

Princetown, Australia

The Twelve Apostles

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

A crocodile bites at the cage

Darwin, Australia

Cage of Death

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

Sydney Observatory

Millers Point, Australia

Sydney Observatory

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

Wolfe Creek Crater

Sturt Creek, Australia

Wolfe Creek Crater

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

The Pinnacles.

Cervantes, Australia

The Pinnacles

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

Loch Ard Gorge panorama, July 2005. (Wikimedia Commons)

Port Campbell, Australia

Loch Ard Gorge

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Wedding Cake Rock

Royal National Park, Australia

Wedding Cake Rock

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy, Australia

Coober Pedy

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement

Eaglehawk Neck, Australia

Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

Lake McKenzie

Fraser Island, Australia

Lake McKenzie / Boorangoora

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

The SS Ayerfield

Wentworth Point, Australia

SS Ayrfield

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Balls Pyramid

Australia

Ball's Pyramid

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel

Putty, Australia

Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

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