The Backyard Bucket List Australia - Motorhome Republic

It's time to dust off your bucket list in 2022 because Motorhome Republic has crunched the data to reveal the true top hidden gems in Australia and they're sure to ignite your wanderlust!

We've created the ultimate 'Backyard Bucket List' that contains 100 of the most unusual, hidden, fantastic and awesome locations in the country, to encourage Aussie's to see these hidden gems that await on our very own doorstep.

By analysing data from Atlas Obscura, a global travel community and database of the world's most wondrous places, we discovered the most coveted and popular, but least actually visited locations, revealing a list of true hidden gems that a relative few have actually seen with their own eyes.

Forget the stereotypical Sydney Opera House and venture instead to a charming hand-built Spanish-style castle hidden in the tropical jungles of Queensland. Or, explore the magic of nature by adventuring into the Helensburgh Glow Worm Tunnel, an abandoned railway that's now home to a host of bioluminescent beetles.

 

 

Check out Motorhome Republic's full Backyard Bucket List below and discover the top true hidden gems broken down by every state. Save the maps links below to your phone, or make sure you’ve got a pen and paper handy and let's explore and go adventure!

 

New South Wales

1. Glow Worm Tunnel Helensburgh
2. Newnes Glow Worm Tunnel
3. Balls Pyramid
4. SS Ayrfield
5. Mungo National Park
6. Wedding Cake Rock
7. Styx Valley Forest
8. Ancient Aboriginal Astronomy
9. Museum Of Human Disease
10. Wendys Secret Garden
11. The Giant Stairway Katoomba Australia
12. Mad Max 2 Museum
13. The Lex And Ruby Graham Gardens
14. Dreamers Gate
15. Burning Mountain
16. Empire Of Atlantium
17. Purikura Photoland
18. Badu Mangroves
19. Aboriginal Carving Whale
20. Mermaid Inlet Cliffs
21. Weird Echo Spot Former Newcastle City Morgue
22. Gould's Books
23. Lillipad Cafe Sydney
24. One More Go One More Go
25. Broken Hill Sculpture Park
26. The Big Poo, Kiama

 

Victoria

27. Lake Gippsland
28. Redwood Forest Tree Art
29. William Ricketts Sanctuary
30. The Witches Garden Mitta Mitta Australia
31. Larundel Asylum
32. Ashcombe Maze
33. Melbourne Storm Tunnels
34. Flinders Street Station Ballroom
35. Melbourne Medical Museum
36. Wunderkammer
37. Melbourne Glowgolf Docklands
38. Bruno’s Art And Sculpture Garden
39. Box Hill Brick Works
40. The Johnston Collection
41. Enchanted Maze Garden
42. The Limelight Department
43. Tumuli Lava Blisters

 

Queensland

44. Paronella Park
45. Undara Lava Tubes
46. Lake Mckenzie
47. Whitehaven Beach
48. Museum Of Underwater Art
49. Capricorn Caves
50. Dularcha Rail Tunnel
51. Pitch Drop Experiment
52. Logical Unsanity Books Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria
53. Ballandean Pyramid
54. Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways
55. The Birdsville Hotel
56. Marineland Melanesia
57. Daintree Entomological Museum
58. Wax Museum And Chamber Horrors

 

Western Australia

59. Lake Hillier
60. Wave Rock
61. Wolfe Creek Crater
62. Horizontal Falls
63. Gnomesville
64. Inside Australia
65. Shell Beach
66. The Stromatolites Of Hamelin Pool
67. Atlantis Marine Park
68. Strelley Pool
69. Gwalia Ghost Town
70. Bungle Bungle Range
71. Hamelin Bay Beach
72. Skylab's Remains
73. Disappointment Rock
74. The Academy Of Taxidermy

 

Northern Territory

75. Cage Of Death
76. Drunken Australian Parrots
77. Gosse Bluff Tnorala Conservation Reserve
78. Lambert Centre Of Australia

 

South Australia

79. The Butterfly Room, Frewville
80. Magnetic Hill
81. Coober Pedy
82. Crocodile Harry's Underground Nest Dugout
83. Marree Man
84. Umpherston Sinkhole
85. The Grave Of The Taman Shud Man
86. Z Ward
87. Santos Museum Of Economic Botany
88. Archer’s Arcadia
89. Queen Adelaide Restaurant
90. Something Wild

 

Tasmania

91. Cape Pillar
92. Eaglehawk Neck Tessellated Pavement
93. Little Blue Lake
94. Macquarie Island
95. Tasmazia And The Village Of Lower Crackpot
96. Wycliffe Well
97. St Columba Falls
98. Bay Of Fires
99. The Ruins Of Hobart Zoo

 

Other territories

100. Crabs, Christmas Island - Christmas Island

 

Research Methods

Motorhome Republic analysed Atlas Obscura data for over 400 hidden, bizarre and unusual Australian locations (Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, and many more) to discover the places that the most people ‘wanted to visit’ but the least people had actually ‘been’ to reveal the true hidden gems of Australia! The top 100 were then used to compile Motorhome Republic's backyard bucket list and were categorised by location type and state. Data correct as of January 2022.

See also our New Zealand Backyard Bucket List for inspiration from across the ditch.