The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

A beautiful 1920s tower filled with local hidden gems.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

A 19th-century baker stands ready to serve customers.

An art gallery, studio, and shop that celebrates death.

Leaning shelves and books galore, this location is a book lover's utopia.

The spherical grains of white quartz sand give every step on this Australian beach a distinctive sound.

A unique rock formation that only a few have managed to venture inside.

Locals have a long-running relationship with the big-beaked birds of this Australian fishing town.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

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

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.