Museums in Australia

This historic tall ship traveled 1.5 million miles around the globe, and once did duty as the mythical pirate ship in Peter Pan.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

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

Unusual finds in this shrine to local law enforcement include a 19th-century vampire-slaying kit.

A firefighting museum housed in a historic station whose Lookout Tower watches over Melbourne.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

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

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

The world's "leaniest" tower encourages you to test the gravity of its situation.

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

One of Australia's largest collections of preserved animals is on display in a historic theater.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

This shrine to film's most iconic wasteland wanderer is located in the very outback where the movies were shot.

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

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.