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

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

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

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

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.

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.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

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

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

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

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

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

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

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