Argyle Cut
Argyle St, Circular Quay, The Rocks, 2000, Australia
Walk through this passage and pay attention to the walls.
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour NSW 2000
You can catch a ferry to this island and camp overnight on a UNESCO World Heritage convict site in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Garrison Church (Holy Trinity)
Lower Fort St, Millers Point, 2000, Australia
The first military church built in colonial Australia is sitting one block from the pub with the kidnapping tunnel.
GPO Clock Tower (Martin Place)
1 Martin Pl, Sydney, 2000, Australia
From eighteen ninety-one to nineteen thirty-nine, the clock tower on the General Post Office was the tallest point in Sydney at eighty-three metres.
Hyde Park Barracks
Macquarie St, Circular Quay, Sydney, 2000, Australia
The architect who designed this building was a convicted forger.
Macquarie Lighthouse
Old South Head Rd, Rose Bay, 2030, Australia
Australia's first lighthouse, and it was designed by the same convicted forger who built Hyde Park Barracks.
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
255a Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
This place looks like you have stumbled into ancient Roman ruins, but it is actually a water reservoir from the eighteen-sixties that collapsed, sat derelict for two decades, and was reborn as a sunken garden.
Queen Victoria Building
455 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
There is a sealed letter inside this building that nobody alive today will ever read.
Susannah Place Museum
58-64 Gloucester St, Circular Quay, The Rocks, 2000, Australia
Four tiny terrace houses on a steep Rocks laneway, and they are the only place in Sydney where you can see exactly how working-class immigrants actually lived from eighteen forty-four to the nineteen-nineties.
Sydney Observatory
1003 Upper Fort Street, Millers Point NSW 2000
Aboriginal Australians had sophisticated astronomical knowledge for at least sixty-five thousand years before this observatory was built.
Sydney Opera House
Benelong Rd, Cremorne, 2090, Australia
You are looking at a building that almost never existed.
The Strand Arcade
195-197 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Between eighteen eighty-one and eighteen ninety-two, Sydney built five covered shopping arcades.
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