After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

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

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

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

On the outskirts of an opal-mining town, these baths fed by a massive underground aquifer are a natural spa.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

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

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

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

The tallest mountain in mainland Australia.

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

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

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.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

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

The world's only full-size replica of the research hut used by Douglas Mawson for his 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

Countless expeditions have left Tasmania to explore Antarctica, but this island state has an even deeper connection with the sea.

This small seaside reserve supposedly inspired a young Errol Flynn to take the nautical adventures that would define him on and off the silver screen.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.