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61. Old Melbourne Gaol
Nineteenth-century bluestone prison where Ned Kelly was hanged in 1880, now a National Trust museum with a City Watch House experience and night tours.
View details — Old Melbourne GaolLandmarks, museums, historic sites, parks and viewpoints that draw visitors to a city, with practical notes on planning a visit.
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Nineteenth-century bluestone prison where Ned Kelly was hanged in 1880, now a National Trust museum with a City Watch House experience and night tours.
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A three-hour return walk from Belfast Terrace up Queenstown Hill, Te Tapu-nui, past history panels to the Basket of Dreams sculpture and wide views of the lake.
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An 11-hectare subtropical garden on a former railway goods yard beside Roma Street station, with a Spectacle Garden, rainforest walk and lakeside lawns.
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A Darling Harbour museum opened in 1991, where visitors can board a destroyer, a submarine and a replica of Captain Cook's HM Bark Endeavour.
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Arts precinct beside Evandale Lake with a six-level art gallery opened in 2021, theatres, a cinema, an outdoor stage and lakeside parkland.
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Observation deck on level 88 of Eureka Tower in Southbank, 285 metres up, with 360-degree views and The Edge, a glass cube that slides out from the building.
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A quiet mountain-ringed lake a short drive from Queenstown, with an easy two to three-hour loop track, a DOC campsite and calm water for paddling.
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Two-site transport and technology museum at Western Springs, linked by a heritage tram, with aircraft, trams, trains, a pioneer village and a hands-on science centre.
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Brisbane's steel cantilever bridge of 1940, designed by John Bradfield, linking Fortitude Valley and Kangaroo Point and climbable on guided tours.
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A waterfront museum on Victoria Quay in Fremantle displaying the America's Cup-winning yacht Australia II, with tours of the submarine HMAS Ovens.
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