Giant lamp houses the tourism information center.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

A rare specimen of an iconic extinct animal in downtown Sydney.

Hidden within Sydney’s lush Royal Botanic Garden is a walled cactus rockery and the site of Australia's first zoo.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

A tower made from shell rock designed to commemorate fallen soldiers in World War I.

A giant chain sculpture that plays on the Māori myth that Rakiura (Stewart Island) is an anchor stone chained to the South Island.

The story behind this beloved toy—named for Theodore Roosevelt and owned by his grandson—is more complicated than you might guess.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

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

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

This modern pedestrian bridge on the Yarra River was modeled after an Aboriginal fish trap.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.