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Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Tens of thousands of flying foxes (a cat-size version of the fruit bat) have set up camp in the central Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens. By day, they roost in the trees, waking at dusk to seek out... »
Extraordinary Flora, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by A Facebook user and Annetta
An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground
Coober Pedy is a mining town in South Australia, which calls itself the "Opal mining capital of the world". The town's name comes from the Aboriginal term for "boy's waterhole," but the joke is... »
Odd Accommodations, Eccentric Homes, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Nathan_Risinger
Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast"
Recently a young couple visiting the Twelve Apostles -- confusingly, there are only nine rock formations -- walked out onto a section of rock known as the London Bridge. In a moment of life... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by canuck and Dylan
A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town
Six hours south of Sydney, the small seaside town of Eden features a whaling museum with exquisite artifacts from over a century of whaling in the community.
The museum opened in 1936 with a... »
Museums and Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Dylan and others
One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle
Tony Phantastes had a vision. In the middle of a small Australian town he was going to create an artistic wonderland to document the history of Australian land-use practices and to commemorate his... »
Unusual Monuments, Incredible Ruins, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan and gabeschwartz
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits
In 2003 the Smithsonian quietly renovated their animal dioramas. They removed the taxidermied gazelles, elephants, giraffes, and put in a series of interactive exhibits aimed at 10 year olds with... »
Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by meanie and Dylan
An arcade chock full of old-timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows by artist David Archer. »
Amazing Automata | Edited by meanie
