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

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

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

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

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

Thousands of lawn gnomes have infested this Australian roundabout.

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

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

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

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

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

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

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.