A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

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

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.

The tallest mountain in mainland Australia.

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

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

This roadside attraction became locally famous for its unintentionally phallic shape.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

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

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

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

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

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.