Places Shruby Wants to Go

Home to the last shore-based whaling station in Australia.

This once-thriving coastal area is now a preserved ghost town.

This classic photo booth was saved from destruction by the local community.

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.

An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.

Australia's first opal field led to a mining rush in the 1890s.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

This sacred site lives up to its name with its majestic, color-splashed sandstone formations.

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

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

It's home to the taxidermy remains of Peter, the dog who helped convict a murderer.

Its collection highlights the monumental tasks undertaken to map Queensland.

A volunteer-run museum dedicated to past and present firefighting practices.

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

A limestone cave filled with impressive formations in Mole Creek Karst National Park.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

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

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.