Children's playground hidden under a big pink and blue cap.

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

Australia's first opal field led to a mining rush in the 1890s.

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

A small curiosity shop with items ranging from antique medical supplies to taxidermied animals.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?

Peanut butter trees and miracle berries are just the beginning.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

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

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

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

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

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

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

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

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

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

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

A remarkable lifelong collection of antiques and art preserved in a historic Melbourne townhouse.

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