Athens, Greece
The Athenian Agora
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
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Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Bhatiari, Bangladesh
Where giant ships go to die.
Brisbane, Australia
Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Ghan, Australia
Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.
West Ballina, Australia
There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.
Bowen, Australia
One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.
Coffs Harbour, Australia
One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.
Wagin, Australia
Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.
Mount Barry, Australia
The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.
Callanna, Australia
Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.
Dadswells Bridge, Australia
Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.
Wittenoom, Australia
A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?
Woombye, Australia
A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
Magnetic Island, Australia
After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.
Davenport, Australia
The UFO capital of Australia is the outbackās answer to Roswell.
Melbourne, Australia
This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.
Purnululu, Australia
These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.
The Caves, Australia
A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
Ventnor, Australia
An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.
Mount Surprise, Australia
White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.
Katoomba, Australia
This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.