Plan a trip to Australia

Places to see in Australia

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Sydney Opera HouseUNESCO

  Culture · New South Wales

  The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings, and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Sydney Opera House Sails.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Lord Howe IslandUNESCO

  Island · New South Wales

  Lord Howe Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. It lies 600 km directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, 780 km northeast of Sydney, and about 900 km southwest of Norfolk Island.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: David Morgan-Mar (CC BY 2.5). Map

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  Macquarie IslandUNESCO

  Island · Tasmania

  Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica. It has been governed as a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1880. It became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: M. Murphy (Public domain). Map

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  K'gariUNESCO

  Island · Queensland

  K'gari, also known by its former name Fraser Island, is a World Heritage-listed sand island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Fraser Island view from Indian Head.jpg (Public domain). Map

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  Kakadu National ParkUNESCO

  Park & nature · Northern Territory

  Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km (106 mi) southeast of Darwin. It is a World Heritage Site. Kakadu is also gazetted as a locality, covering the same area as the national park, with 313 people recorded living there in the 2016 Australian census.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Andrea Schaffer (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Royal Exhibition BuildingUNESCO

  Park & nature · Victoria

  The Royal Exhibition Building is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Photograph taken by Diliff and straightened by Ian Fieggen (CC BY 2.5). Map

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  Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National ParkUNESCO

  Heritage site · Northern Territory

  Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The park is home to both Uluru and Kata Tjuta. It is located 1,943 kilometres (1,207 mi) south of Darwin by road and 440 kilometres (270 mi) south-west of Alice Springs along the Stuart and Lasseter Highways.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Leonard G (Public domain). Map

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  Purnululu National ParkUNESCO

  Heritage site · Western Australia

  The Purnululu National Park is a World Heritage Site in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. The 239,723-hectare (592,370-acre) national park is located approximately 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of Kununurra, with Halls Creek located to the south.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Purnululu National Park DSC03767.jpg (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Sydney

  City · New South Wales

  Sydney is the capital of the state of New South Wales and the largest city in Australia.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: W. Bulach (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Canberra

  City · Australian Capital Territory

  Canberra is the capital city of Australia and the largest population centre in the Australian Capital Territory. With an estimated population of 484,630 as of 2025, Canberra is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest Australian city by population.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Tim J Keegan from Lake Macquarie, Australia (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map

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  Perth

  City · Western Australia

  Perth is the capital and largest city of the state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.2 million in the city and 2.3 million within Greater Perth as of 2023.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Samuel Wiki (CC BY 4.0). Map

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  Brisbane

  City · Queensland

  Brisbane is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia, with a population of about 2.8 million.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Chris Olszewski (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map