Melbourne — Sights
Coffee in a laneway, then a tram to the next one
- Hosier Lane & the Laneways — Spray-painted walls and a flat white in every lane
- Flinders Street Station — Mustard dome, a row of clocks, Melbourne's meeting spot
- Federation Square — A jagged plaza with a free screen museum
- Queen Victoria Market — Hot jam doughnuts in a 19th-century market
- Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne — Lakes and lawns a short walk from the city
- State Library Victoria — Look down into a six-storey domed reading room
- NGV International — Free gallery: water wall, then lie under a glass ceiling
- St Kilda Pier & Beach (little penguins) — Wild penguins coming home to the breakwater at dusk
- Brighton Bathing Boxes — A beach lined with eighty-odd painted huts
- Melbourne Skydeck (Eureka Tower) — Level 88, 285m up, with a glass box that slides out
- Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) — A 100,000-seat stadium: tour it or catch a footy game
- Shrine of Remembrance — A balcony view straight down St Kilda Road to the city
- Great Ocean Road & the Twelve Apostles — Limestone stacks in the Southern Ocean; a full-day coast drive
- Phillip Island Penguin Parade — Hundreds of little penguins march ashore at dusk
- Puffing Billy & the Dandenongs — Legs over the window ledge on a century-old steam train
- Yarra Valley (optional) — Sparkling wine and a long lunch among the vines
- Melbourne Museum — An indoor forest and Aboriginal stories
- Royal Exhibition Building — 1880 dome, World Heritage listed
- Royal Arcade — Mosaic floors and a clock that strikes
- St Paul's Cathedral — Free Gothic cathedral by Flinders St Station
- Old Melbourne Gaol — Bluestone gaol where Ned Kelly hanged
- Yarra River Walk & Southbank Promenade — Sunset bars on the river, skyline at the end
- Docklands Harbour Esplanade & Melbourne Star — Harbour promenade, skyline and Webb Bridge
- NGV Australia (Ian Potter Centre) — Aboriginal art to colonial landscapes, free entry
- Melbourne Zoo — A century-old zoo close to the city
- Williamstown Beach & Esplanade — Ferry-ride seaside, fish and chips, city view