Parramatta, Australia
St. John’s Cemetery
The oldest European burial ground in Australia.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Buffalo, New York
Western New York Irish Famine Memorial
A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.
Sydney, Australia
Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine
A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850.
Rookwood, Australia
Rookwood Cemetery
The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.
Williamstown, Australia
Titanic Theatre Restaurant
Enjoy all the trappings from 1912 aboard this Titanic-themed restaurant.
Melbourne, Australia
Captain Cook's Cottage
The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.
Adelaide, Australia
South Australian Museum
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.
St Leonards, Australia
Gore Hill Cemetery
One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.
Queens Domain, Australia
The Ruins of the Beaumaris Zoo
The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.
Brisbane, Australia
Streets Beach
Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Hyams Beach, Australia
Hyams Beach
The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.
Sydney, Australia
Eric the Pliosaur
The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.
Sydney, Australia
Waverley Cemetery
A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Freycinet, Australia
Wineglass Bay
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
Whitsundays, Australia
Whitehaven Beach
A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.
Sydney, Australia
Wendy's Secret Garden
Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.
Australia
Lake Hillier
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Lavenham, England
Suffolk's Pink and Crooked Houses
The historic villages and towns of Suffolk are filled with wonky wooden beam houses painted an unusual shade of pink. Unknown to many though, this sweet shade has a bloody history.
Washington, D.C.
Barbie Pond on Q Street
A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.
Petersburg, Virginia
The Tombstone House
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
New York, New York
The Former Offices of McKim, Mead and White
The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.
Elmira, New York
'Hellmira' Monument
All that remains of one of the Civil War's more deadly POW camps is a simple flagstone.
