Places Pete M Wants to Go

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

This may be one of the most valuable Morris & Co. stained glass windows in Australia.

This ancient rock shelter features cave art and is one of the most culturally important sites in the country.

Plastic pups and their colorful homes greet travelers on this otherwise ordinary Australian street.

A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.

This stone obelisk commemorates the discovery of the world's largest gold nugget.

The famed literary character has a unique connection to this city.

This Franklinford, Australia site was once home to one of the remotest churches of its faith—in the fictional world of the Kcymaerxthaere.

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

One of the most successful gold mines of the Victorian gold rush.

Bomb tests and sheep ranchers share the world's largest military land base.

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

One of the world's largest tractors was built to replace camel caravans.

This small town museum is home to the largest collection of puppets in Australia.

An opulent mansion that acted as the set for Appleyard Girls School in the 1975 classic film 'Picnic at Hanging Rock.'

One man’s legacy soars high on the wings of a miniature plane.

The haunting remains of a beautiful old plant nursery founded in the 1850s.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

Carved panels tell the complete history of the harsh Central Highlands region.

The decommissioned station is now a museum packed with antiquated hydroelectricity artifacts.