Dozens of large-scale, creative, evocative curios from prominent artists dot the calm outdoor space around this major museum.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

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

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

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

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

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

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

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.