Block Arcade
282 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This might be the most beautiful interior in Melbourne.
Coop's Shot Tower
300 Lonsdale St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Look up.
Degraves Street
Degraves St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This narrow lane packed with cafe tables is probably where you got your first Melbourne flat white, and fair enough.
Eureka Tower
7 Riverside Quay, Melbourne City, Southbank, 3006, Australia
That skyscraper dominating the Southbank skyline is not just tall.
Fitzroy Gardens and Cooks' Cottage
Wellington Pde, Melbourne City, East Melbourne, 3002, Australia
Deep inside the Fitzroy Gardens, there is a cottage that was shipped brick by brick from Yorkshire, England, in nineteen thirty-four.
Fitzroy Pool and the Aqua Profonda Sign
160 Alexandra Pde, Nicholls Ward, Fitzroy, 3065, Australia
Painted in black letters on the brick wall at the deep end of this pool are two words that tell one of the most touching immigration stories in Melbourne.
Flinders Street Station
Flinders St, Batman's Hill, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are looking at the most recognised building in Melbourne.
Luna Park Melbourne
18 Lower Esp, Lake Ward, St Kilda, 3182, Australia
That enormous grinning face you walk through to enter Luna Park is not just a quirky entrance.
Manchester Unity Building
220 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Look up at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets.
Melbourne City Baths
420 Swanston St, Carlton South, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This beautiful Edwardian Baroque building exists because the Yarra River was so disgustingly polluted in the eighteen fifties that people kept getting typhoid from swimming in it.
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Barassi Way, Melbourne City, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are looking at the spiritual home of Australian sport.
Naked for Satan
285 Brunswick St, Nicholls Ward, Fitzroy, 3065, Australia
The name of this bar is not a marketing gimmick.
Old Melbourne Gaol
377 Russell St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are standing outside the place where Ned Kelly was hanged.
Princes Bridge
Swanston St, Greek Quarter, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are crossing one of the oldest river crossing points in Melbourne.
Queen Victoria Market
Queen St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
You are shopping on top of a cemetery.
Royal Arcade
335 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Welcome to the oldest surviving shopping arcade in Australia.
Royal Exhibition Building
9 Nicholson Street, Carlton
You are standing in front of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first building in Australia to receive that designation, and also the building where Australia itself was born.
St Paul's Cathedral
209 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
This Gothic Revival cathedral stands on the exact spot where the first public Christian service in Melbourne was conducted in eighteen thirty-five, right at the founding of the settlement.
State Library Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Walk inside and look up.
Victorian Trades Hall
54 Victoria Street, Carlton
You are looking at the oldest continually functioning trade union building in the world.
Young and Jackson Hotel
1 Swanston Street, Melbourne
This pub on the corner of Swanston and Flinders has been pouring beers since eighteen sixty-one, but the real attraction is upstairs.
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