A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

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

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

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

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

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Australia's first open air museum and antique 3D theater.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.