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All Australia Broken Hill

The Atlas Obscura Guide To Broken Hill

4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Broken Hill, Australia

Updated March 26, 2013

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Broken Hill Sculpture Symposium

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.
Australia’s Big Bench. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Big Bench

Located on top of mines that run through Broken Hill.

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Titanic Bandsmen Memorial

A modest park memorial pays tribute to one of the Titanic's most revered storylines.
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Big Ant

Designed by artist Pro Hart, built elsewhere in 1980.
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Mad Max 2 Museum

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Mad Max 2 Museum

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.
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