Once a farming community founded by the Italian survivors of an immigration scam, this colony is now a free camp and roadside attraction.

A statue of the beloved storybook character stands in front of the building in which her creator was born.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of writer P.L. Travers and her most beloved character, Mary Poppins.

A fallen bull's legacy lives on in the rural cattle town that is named after him.

A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A whimsical menagerie of creatures carved into a 300-year-old tree trunk.

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

The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

A tiny town's spinning, whirling propeller collection holds Australia's largest windmill.

This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

The holes in the world's longest golf course are in a series of different towns.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

Hundreds of people walk past this palm tree every day without spotting its secret.

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

A beautiful hike through national parks, forests and beaches in Western Australia.

One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.

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

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.