Boolboonda, Australia
Boolboonda Train Tunnel
The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.
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Boolboonda, Australia
The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.
Melbourne, Australia
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Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.
Adelaide, Australia
A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.
Yallabatharra, Australia
A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.
Cairns, Australia
These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.
Reids Flat, Australia
The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.
Surfers Paradise, Australia
The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.
Wilsons Promontory, Australia
A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.
Bicheno, Australia
Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.
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This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.
Hyams Beach, Australia
The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.
Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Lord Howe Island, Australia
In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.
Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Callanna, Australia
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Sea Lake, Australia
Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.
Berriedale, Australia
This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.
Ularring, 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.
Wingen, Australia
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Currarong, Australia
These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.
Landsborough, Australia
This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.
Pyengana, Australia
A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.
Leonora, Australia
This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.