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Longreach, Australia

Qantas Founders Museum

The museum describes the story of how an Australian airline with a single biplane became one of the biggest in the world.
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Acton, Australia

Australian National University Classics Museum

A little-known museum of Ancient Roman and Ancient Greek artifacts.
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Canberra, Australia

Phar Lap's Heart

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.
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Augathella, Australia

Big Meat Ant

Inspired by the local football team, this giant ant is meant to draw tourists to a tiny Australian town.
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Morven, Australia

Kerosene Tin Hut

These tin huts were commonplace in Australia during the Great Depression.
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The Caves, Australia

Capricorn Caves

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
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Banana, Australia

Banana the Bullock

A fallen bull's legacy lives on in the rural cattle town that is named after him.
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Coorada, Australia

1972 Taroom Truck Explosion Memorial

One of the biggest mysteries of Central Queensland: How did this truck spontaneously combust with the force of a massive bomb?
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Bundaberg North, Australia

Bundaberg Botanic Gardens

Peanut butter trees and miracle berries are just the beginning.
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Valentine Plains, Australia

Beautiful Betsy Crash Site

For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.
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Seventeen Seventy, Australia

Lt. James Cook Monument Cairn

A cairn commemorating James Cook's second landing in Australia.
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Boolboonda, Australia

Boolboonda Train Tunnel

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.
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Foynes, Ireland

Foynes Flying Boat Museum

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.
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South Kolan, Australia

Mystery Craters

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.
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Maryborough, Australia

Cistern Chapel

These public toilets are a work of art.
Added by remytravels
Maryborough, Australia

The Story Bank

A museum dedicated to the legacy of writer P.L. Travers and her most beloved character, Mary Poppins.
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Bells Bridge, Australia

Jurassic Ark

A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.
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Araluen, Australia

Gympie Bone Museum

Australia's first and only museum dedicated exclusively to bones.
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Kenilworth, Australia

Canistrum Toilets

An iconic designer dunny inspired by Aboriginal fishing baskets.
Added by Mikey Burnett
Woombye, Australia

The Big Pineapple

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.
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Kilcoy, Australia

Kilcoy

This small Australian town is considered home to the "Yowie" or the Aussie Big Foot.
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Duranbah, Australia

Big Avocado

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.
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Limerick, Ireland

Grange Stone Circle Lough Gur

The largest stone circle in Ireland.
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Ballykeelaun, Ireland

Ardnacrusha Power Station

At the time of its construction, this hydroelectric power plant was the largest in the world.
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