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

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

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

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

The largest shot tower in Australia is a unique reminder of industrial ammunitions history.

Melbourne's favorite bronze dog.

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

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

The bullet-banged DIY suit of armour belonging to Australia’s most famous outlaw.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A plaque hangs near the execution place of the Scottish Independence leader famously depicted in "Braveheart."

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.