Places siobhanslattery Wants to Go

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

Queensland's largest dam includes a winding spillway that offers drivers a mesmerizing sight.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

Cooled, fractured lava formed this geometric rock feature.

Only five people are buried in this tiny cemetery in Wilsons Promontory National Park.

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

The oldest remaining theatre in New South Wales.

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

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

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

Dine aboard the historic Ghan train while retracing early explorers' journey through the Outback.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

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

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.

For better or worse, this whimsical sculpture garden was a favorite place of Rupert Murdoch's.

One of the oldest operating hydroelectric power schemes in Australia.

A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.