Australia

Continuing our series on street racing circuits around the world, let's take a ride in the Google Street View Car around some of Australia's most famous venues! Adelaide The home of the Australian Grand Prix until 1996, Adelaide's streets in…

It's been a while since we featured a giant geoglyph, so it was with great pleasure that we learned of Australia's Bunjil geoglyph at the You Yangs National Park in Victoria. "You Yangs" is a derivation of the Aboriginal words…

Unless you've been living on the, er, Moon, you can hardly have failed to notice that today1 marks the 40th anniversary of the historic landing of the Apollo 11 mission – during which, Neil Armstrong became the first human being…

"Best" is a subjective word at, err... best. What one person or group values as the "top" will never be the same for everyone – still, when you're looking for something and you want the "best", it's always nice when…

This enormous hexagon, a mile and a half in diameter, looks like some kind of massive occult symbol etched in the scrub on the remote western coast of Australia, 700 miles north of Perth. In fact, we're looking at a…

Peering out the window of the little airtaxi that has brought you to The Rat's Nest, or Rottnest Island, 18 km southwest off the coast of Australia, you'll notice the island's name spelled out in trees. This little island, only…