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.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

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

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

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

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

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.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

This is why we can't have nice things on the Incan Trail.

A small, emotionally charged room inside the Mario Testino Museum dedicated to Princess Diana and one famous photo shoot.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.