This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

A dazzling temple featuring a towering 12-meter golden Buddha.

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

A hidden lane full of top-quality street art.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

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

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

This bell was once used to summon rescue crews when ships fell victim to the treacherous waterways.

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

The abandoned remains of a once popular zoo, and the grave of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

A simple tribute to the migrant workers who landed here before walking hundreds of miles to Victoria's gold mines.

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

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This stone tower was built in the late 19th century to signal the time to ships in the water.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

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

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

Incredible rock formations jut from the southern end of this spectacular stingray-viewing spot.

A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?