A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

An indigenous ethnobotanist runs this brunch spot celebrating Australia’s native flavors.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

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

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

Putt your way around Australia in a black light environment.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!