Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

The world's first indigenous rooftop farm boasts 2,000 plants from more than 35 different native Australian species.

A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

This work of art was designed to represent the Tarpeian Way Quarry that once dominated the area.

A rare and unique 19th-century pastoral burial site elevated off the ground.

This 1800s former railway tunnel is now part of a heritage walking trail.

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

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

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

A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

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

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

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

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

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

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.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.