Crossing the Outback by Train | For more than a hundred years, a top-to-bottom exploration eluded European settlers—until these trails were blazed by John McDouall Stuart and Robert O’Hara Burke. Today’s Ghan train follows Stuart’s lead.

No Car Island Vacations | Rottnest Island, Australia

The Wizards of Oz | Australia’s Great Ocean Road | This “bastard of a coastline,” as a local calls it, is chock-full of artifacts from long-ago shipwrecks, like this anchor from the French schooner Marie Gabrielle at Wreck Beach. Don’t even think about swimming here.

Melbourne’s Hottest Restaurants, Bars, and Neighborhoods | St. Kilda’s beach

Melbourne’s Hottest Restaurants, Bars, and Neighborhoods | Chuckle Park Bar

The Reinvention of Melbourne | While their peers in Sydney slather on aloe and quaff cocktails, Melburnians claim a more sophisticated nightlife, secreted inside restaurants like Vue de Monde, which offers this view fifty-five stories above the street.