Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

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

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

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

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

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

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

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

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

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

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

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

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

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

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.