17 Hidden Gems in Sydney Most People Walk Right Past
17 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Argyle Cut
Argyle St, Circular Quay, The Rocks, 2000, Australia
Walk through this passage and pay attention to the walls.
Camperdown Cemetery
Church St, King Street, Newtown, 2042, Australia
This cemetery in Newtown contains three stories that would each justify a visit on their own, and almost nobody comes here.
Customs House
31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay, Sydney NSW 2000
Walk into the ground floor of this building and look down.
Forgotten Songs (Angel Place)
Angel Pl, Sydney, 2000, Australia
Look up.
Hero of Waterloo Hotel
81 Lower Fort St, Millers Point, 2000, Australia
You are standing in front of one of the oldest pubs in Sydney, and it has a trapdoor problem.
Mortuary Station
49-53 Regent St, Central Park, Chippendale, 2008, Australia
Sydney built a train station exclusively for dead people, and they made it gorgeous.
Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney CBD, Sydney, 2000, Australia
You are sitting on -- or standing next to -- a sandstone bench that convicts carved by hand in eighteen-ten for the governor's wife.
North Head Quarantine Station
1 North Head Scenic Dr, Manly, 2095, Australia
For over one hundred and fifty years, every migrant ship entering Sydney Harbour had to stop at this headland before anyone could set foot on Australian soil.
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.
St Mary's Cathedral
Saint Mary's Rd, St James, Sydney, 2000, Australia
Most people walk past St Mary's Cathedral and think nice church, keep moving.
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.
The Baxter Inn
Basement, 152-156 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000
One of the best whisky bars in the world is hiding in the basement of a building on Clarence Street, and the only way to find it is to know it exists.
The Strand Arcade
195-197 Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Between eighteen eighty-one and eighteen ninety-two, Sydney built five covered shopping arcades.
The Tank Stream
Beneath Pitt Street, Sydney NSW 2000
The entire city of Sydney exists because of a stream flowing under your feet right now.
Wendy Whiteley's Secret Garden
Lavender Bay, North Sydney NSW 2060
This garden exists because of grief.
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