This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

The world's tallest shot tower—maybe.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.

The world's first cageless zoo is working to save endangered Tasmanian devils.

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

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

It's said that visitors can "see" Tasmania inside this cave.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

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

This small Australian town is considered home to the "Yowie" or the Aussie Big Foot.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.

The unique work of art celebrates the 30th anniversary of the 1988 World Expo.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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