7 Hidden Gems in Melbourne Most People Walk Right Past
7 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Fitzroy Gardens and Cooks' Cottage
Wellington Pde, Melbourne City, East Melbourne, 3002, Australia
Deep inside the Fitzroy Gardens, there is a cottage that was shipped brick by brick from Yorkshire, England, in nineteen thirty-four.
Fitzroy Pool and the Aqua Profonda Sign
160 Alexandra Pde, Nicholls Ward, Fitzroy, 3065, Australia
Painted in black letters on the brick wall at the deep end of this pool are two words that tell one of the most touching immigration stories in Melbourne.
Manchester Unity Building
220 Collins St, Collins Street Precinct, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
Look up at the corner of Collins and Swanston streets.
Melbourne City Baths
420 Swanston St, Carlton South, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
This beautiful Edwardian Baroque building exists because the Yarra River was so disgustingly polluted in the eighteen fifties that people kept getting typhoid from swimming in it.
Naked for Satan
285 Brunswick St, Nicholls Ward, Fitzroy, 3065, Australia
The name of this bar is not a marketing gimmick.
Royal Arcade
335 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Welcome to the oldest surviving shopping arcade in Australia.
The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street, Melbourne
From the outside, the Nicholas Building looks like just another heritage office block.
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