Melbourne Highlights
A curated tour of Melbourne's most iconic landmarks, from its historic CBD to its riverside arts precinct and beyond.
Trip Stops
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Opened in 1854, this was the first railway station built in an Australian city and remains its most photographed landmark, with a row of famous clocks above the entrance long used as the city's default meeting spot.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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This bold, fractal-patterned public square opened in 2002 and is now Melbourne's cultural heart, hosting free festivals year-round and drawing about 9.7 million visitors annually.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Consecrated in 1891 on the traditional site where Melbourne's first Christian service was held in 1836, its Gothic Revival spires still anchor the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Trading since 1878, this is the largest open-air market in the Southern Hemisphere, with part of it built over an early Melbourne cemetery still marked by a small memorial.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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The largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, it houses the taxidermied remains of Phar Lap, the legendary racehorse, alongside a full-scale Forest Gallery grown from Victorian rainforest species.
📍 Carlton, Victoria, Australia
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Established in 1846, these 38-hectare gardens hold over 8,500 plant species from around the world, including a 19th-century Separation Tree once used to mark Victoria's split from New South Wales.
📍 South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
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Built to honour Victorians who served in WWI and completed in 1934, it's positioned so a beam of sunlight strikes the Stone of Remembrance's 'LOVE' inscription at exactly 11am on Remembrance Day.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Known locally as 'the G,' this 1853 stadium is the largest in the Southern Hemisphere, seating over 100,000 people and hosting the 1956 Olympics' opening ceremony.
📍 Richmond, Victoria, Australia
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Founded in 1861, it's Australia's oldest and most-visited art museum, famous for its Great Hall stained-glass ceiling and a water wall you're invited to touch at the entrance.
📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Topping the 297-metre Eureka Tower, this observation deck was the world's tallest residential building when completed in 2006, named after the 1854 Eureka Stockade rebellion with a gold-and-red crown to match.
📍 Southbank, Victoria, Australia
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Opened in 1862, it's Australia's oldest zoo and one of the oldest in the world, known for its walk-through Butterfly House and the Trail of the Elephants exhibit.
📍 Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Opened in 1912 by the same team behind Coney Island's original Luna Park, guests still enter through the giant 'Mr Moon' face, and its 1912 Scenic Railway is the world's oldest continually operating roller coaster.
📍 St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
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