Barangaroo Reserve
Barangaroo, Australia
This six-hectare headland park is named after a woman who told the colonists to get absolutely stuffed, and the fact that the precinct is not even on her traditional lands just adds to the irony.
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.
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.
Dawes Point
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Circular Quay, Dawes Point, 2000, Australia
You are standing under the shadow of the Harbour Bridge, and beneath the roar of traffic above you is one of the most quietly extraordinary stories in Australian history.
Fort Denison (Pinchgut Island)
Millers Point, Australia
See that tiny island sitting out in the harbour? The one that looks almost quaint with its little stone tower? Its nickname is Pinchgut, and once you know why, you will never look at it the same way.
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.
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 Block, Redfern
Eveleigh St, Redfern, 2016, Australia
You are standing in the birthplace of Aboriginal civil rights in Australia.
Explore indigenous in Sydney
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.