The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

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

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

By standing on a particular paving stone in the courtyard, you'll hear an echo that shouldn't be.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

Popular tourist destination now stands as a memorial to Sam the koala.

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

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

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

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

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

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

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

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.