Australian Age of DinosaursMuseum of Natural History

The world's largest collection of Australian dinosaur fossils, on a mesa called The Jump-Up outside Winton. The Collection Room holds the type specimens of the continent's own creatures — Banjo the Australovenator, Matilda the Diamantinasaurus — bone dug from black soil and ninety-five million years old. The Fossil Preparation Laboratory is the busiest in the Southern Hemisphere; book a day at the bench and clean real bone yourself. Outside, life-size bronzes walk the Dinosaur Canyon, and the whole plateau is Australia's first Dark-Sky Sanctuary.