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This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

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.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

A beautiful hike through national parks, forests and beaches in Western Australia.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

This odd 1930s shop remains stranded in time and shrouded in mystery.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

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

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

Visible from both land and sea.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.

The only fixed chain and post trail in Scotland snakes its way along the base of a towering seaside cliff.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.