A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Its most grisly object is a jar full of severed fingers allegedly cut off by prisoners to avoid work.

It's home to the taxidermy remains of Peter, the dog who helped convict a murderer.

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

The city’s oldest gateway to the galaxy lies at the entrance to the Royal Botanical Gardens.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

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

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

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

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Australia's largest medical museum featuring a 19th-century pharmacy.