Places Shruby Wants to Go

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

A small curiosity shop with items ranging from antique medical supplies to taxidermied animals.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

Housed in a refurbished gas station, this small museum is a tribute to the inventor of Vegemite.

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

With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

Australia's oldest artists' colony.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

These 400 million-year-old caves feature honeycomb limestone formations.

This museum is home to one of the largest private collections of seashells in Australia.

This salt lake in South Australia features seasonal color changes and its very own loch monster.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

A vast and opulent collection of art and show dog memorabilia collected over one man's lifetime.

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

An animatronic tribute to a legendary half-man, half-fish creature.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.

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

Warm up from the freezing waters in this fully functional sauna in the middle of the Tasmanian wilderness.

A historical umbrella shop, whose owner started a craze for locally-made souvenirs.

In this Red Rock forest, a small enclave plays host to a collection of wacky figurines.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.