This century-old steam engine looks like it should be chugging through the highlands of Scotland. However, the Puffing Billy Railway travels through temperate rainforest between Belgrave and Lakeside, Menzies Creek and Gembrook.
This Spanish-style castillo, now mostly in ruins, was built by José Paronella, a Catalonian who came to Australia in 1913 to work on the sugar cane fields, eventually buying and selling farms and amassing wealth.
Port Adelaide was the arrival point for most early German settlers, so the state of South Australia has a strong Teutonic heritage.
Swiss-themed Grindelwald lies in the Tamar Valley, just outside Launceston in Tasmania. Built in the 1980s, this small residential development features traditional architecture with wide eaves
The oldest building in Australia, it was built in 1755 by the parents of Captain James Cook and stood just outside the village of Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The sight of a water buffalo wallowing in wetlands makes you realise just how similar parts of the lush Top End are to Asia. Buffalo were first introduced to the area in 1825 as working animals and meat for the north’s remote settlements.
A tiny town in Western Australia's pretty Avon Valley, New Norcia is the country's only monastic town. Founded in 1847 by Spanish Benedictine monks, its abbey, chapels.
When winter comes and the snow falls, the pretty mountain village of Thredbo in New South Wales’ Kosciuszko National Park really could be in the Alps.
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