Step aside Great Wall of China, Australia has the world's longest fence! Stretching for 3,488 miles, it was built to keep dogs, dingoes and rabbits away from crops. The country's most extreme response to pests however came in 1932 when war was declared war on Emu's. And this is only the tip of Aussie eccentricity.
Discover Secret NSW: hidden places off the beaten track, historical oddities, quirky bars, sites of the unusual and the…
Discover Secret Victoria: hidden places off the beaten track, historical oddities, quirky bars, sites of the unusual an…
Opened in 1856, the State Library of Victoria is Australia’s oldest public library and a fascinating symbol of free acc…
Melbourne
More than just a monument to the Victorian Gold Rush, the Old Treasury Building is one of the most spectacular examples…
Melbourne
Despite not being a real volcano, Guilfoyle’s Volcano is a spectacular attraction in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens …
Melbourne
The oldest continuous Chinatown in the Western world, Chinatown Melbourne is an urban tapestry of Ancient culture, immi…
Melbourne
Newport Lakes Reserve is a reclaimed urban bushland area spanning 33 hectares in Altona, a suburb of Melbourne, Victori…
Melbourne
Cooks’ Cottage is the reconstructed home of Captain Cook’s parents, originally built in 1755 in Great Ayton, North York…
Melbourne
Australia's oldest running bullion mint and a record-breaking producer of gold coin, Perth mint is as historic as it is…
Perth
A Perth public space that pays tribute to the area's indigenous owners, Yagan Square is named after a Noongar hero who …
Perth
The ancestral home of the Jagera people and a historic part of modern day Brisbane, Bulimba has developed into a charmi…
Brisbane
Boasting one of the finest collections of exotic plants in the whole of Australia, Araluen Botanical Park started life …
Perth