A special train service transported Sydney's dead from this station to "Necropolis Receiving Houses" at Rookwood Cemetery.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

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

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

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

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

High winds can make this one scary landing.

New Zealand's only running funicular railway.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

Watch the seas clash at the place where according to Maori tradition, the spirits depart for their journey to the afterlife.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A site of natural wonder and flying coconuts in Samoa.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.