Sydney self-guided audio tour

On foot, by bike or by car · 186 places · 15 km of walking routes and a 102 km driving route

Every place on the map

Each red dot is a place with its own story. The story starts by itself when you reach it — on foot, by bike or by car.

All 186 places in this guide

Here is every place the guide tells you about, with the first line of its story:

1. The Rocks — Sydney's oldest neighbourhood and the place where European Australia began.
2. The Hero of Waterloo — The Hero of Waterloo is one of Sydney's oldest surviving pubs.
3. Still Life with Stone and Car — Still Life with Stone and Car is one of Sydney's most unexpected pieces of public art, and you will see exactly what the name promises: a massive, rough-hewn boulder sitting heavily on top of a crushed little red hatchback.
4. The Lord Nelson Brewery — The Lord Nelson Brewery Hotel, Sydney's oldest continually licensed pub.
5. Observatory Hill — You're passing Observatory Hill — the highest point in Sydney's historic centre and one of the city's most treasured green spaces.
6. Four Seasons — The Four Seasons is a sleek, modern luxury tower — but it stands on the slope early Sydney called Hangman's Hill, beside the site of Sydney's old gaol.
7. Sydney Harbour Bridge — Spanning five hundred and three metres across the harbour, it was the longest steel arch bridge in the world when it opened in 1932, a title it held for nearly three decades.
8. Coopers Lookout — Coopers Lookout in Kirribilli — one of the finest vantage points on Sydney Harbour.
9. Blue Point — Blues Point Reserve in McMahons Point — one of Sydney's best-kept secret viewpoints.
10. Google Sydney Office — Google's Australian headquarters sits on Pirrama Road, on Pyrmont's old harbour waterfront, where wool stores, wharves and naval warehouses once lined the shore — twenty-first-century technology among the brick and sandstone of the old…
11. The Star Casino — The Star Casino is Sydney's original casino, first opened in 1995 and for decades the only legal casino in New South Wales — until Crown Sydney opened its gaming floors in 2022 and ended the monopoly.
12. Darling Island Wharf — Darling Island Wharf is one of Pyrmont's best-kept secrets — a small jetty restored as a public boardwalk with one of the finest panoramic views across Cockle Bay to the city skyline and the Anzac Bridge.
13. Harris Street, Pyrmont — Harris Street is the historic spine of Pyrmont — named after John Harris, an Irish-born surgeon who arrived in Sydney in 1790 and went on to own most of this peninsula.
14. Australian National Maritime Museum — The Australian National Maritime Museum is the country's main collection of seafaring history — from Aboriginal bark canoes to nuclear-age submarines.
15. Darling Harbour & Cockle Bay — Darling Harbour is Sydney's most famous waterfront entertainment precinct — built on what was once a deep working dock for ocean cargo.
16. ICC Sydney — ICC Sydney, opened in 2016, is one of the largest convention and exhibition centres in the southern hemisphere.
17. Sydney Town Hall — Sydney Town Hall is the grand civic heart of the city, completed in 1889.
18. St Andrew's Cathedral — St Andrew's Cathedral is Australia's oldest cathedral — Anglican, consecrated in 1868, with twin towers in English Gothic.
19. Capitol Theatre — The Capitol Theatre is Sydney's grandest heritage opera house — a 1928 Spanish-Mediterranean fantasy in Haymarket.
20. Downing Centre Local & District Court — The Downing Centre is housed in a magnificent 1909 Edwardian palace — once Mark Foy's, Sydney's most fashionable department store, inspired by Paris's Bon Marché.
21. ANZ Tower / Aurora Place — Aurora Place is the glass-sail skyscraper at one Macquarie Street, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano in 2000.
22. MLC Centre — The MLC Centre is a sixty-seven-storey octagonal modernist tower designed by Harry Seidler, Australia's most famous post-war architect.
23. Wynyard Park & St Phillip's Church — Wynyard Park was once the parade ground of the colony's first military barracks, and the lawn still keeps the shape of that old square.
24. Sydney Conservatorium of Music — The Sydney Conservatorium of Music occupies a beautiful Gothic-revival building completed in 1821 as the stables for Government House.
25. Government House — Government House sits at the northern tip of the Royal Botanic Garden — the official residence of the Governor of New South Wales since 1845, apart from two long breaks.
26. Suez Canal Lane — Suez Canal Lane is the narrowest public passage in The Rocks — barely one and a half metres wide, with sandstone walls pressing in from both sides.
27. Chinatown — Sydney's Chinatown has been the beating heart of the city's Chinese community for over one hundred and fifty years.
28. Sydney University — The University of Sydney is the oldest university in Australia and one of the most beautiful campuses in the world.
29. Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops — Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops were, for a century, the biggest industrial site in New South Wales — and one of the largest railway workshops anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
30. UTS University — the University of Technology Sydney — known as UTS — one of Australia's leading technology and innovation universities with over forty-five thousand students.
31. One Central Park (Vertical Gardens) — One Central Park is one of Sydney's most photographed modern residential towers, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel and opened in 2014.
32. Sack Building (Gehry) — The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building is the crumpled brown home of the UTS Business School.
33. White Bay Cruise Terminal — White Bay Cruise Terminal is Sydney's secondary cruise port, opened in 2013 to relieve pressure on the Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay.
34. Korean Town — Sydney's Korean Town is a compact strip centred on Pitt Street around Liverpool Street, just steps from Chinatown.
35. Thai Town — Sydney's Thai Town is one of the most authentic clusters of Thai restaurants and grocery stores outside Thailand.
36. Barangaroo / Sydney Crown Tower — 0-40% essential — Barangaroo precinct + Crown Sydney tower (wow factor) 40-60% important — Barangaroo the Cammeraygal woman (heritage) 60-80% interesting — Hungry Mile / Great Depression 80-100% bonus — Reserve headland sandstone…
37. Park Hyatt — The Park Hyatt Sydney sits along the waterfront, tucked right at the edge of the harbour — arguably the city's most exclusive hotel.
38. Sydney Port — Overseas Passenger Terminal — the beating heart of Sydney Port.
39. Museum of Contemporary Art — The Museum of Contemporary Art fills a bold Art Deco building raised for the Maritime Services Board, the men who once ran Sydney's working harbour.
40. George Street — George Street is the oldest street in Australia. It began as a rough track worn into the ground by convicts carrying water up from the Tank Stream, and by 1789 it was already the main road of the settlement — for years the…
41. Sydney Opera House — The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic buildings ever constructed.
42. Sydney Opera House — Lookout — The Sydney Opera House stands on Bennelong Point — a sliver of land jutting into the harbour, named after Woollarawarre Bennelong, a senior Wangal man who befriended Governor Arthur Phillip in 1790.
43. Sydney Exchange — The historic heart of Australian commerce.
44. Thomas Sutcliffe Mort — In Macquarie Place stands the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort — one of Australia's greatest industrialists.
45. Chief Secretary's Building — A masterpiece of Victorian Free Classical architecture and one of Sydney's most magnificent heritage sites.
46. King Edward VII — Statue of King Edward the Seventh — Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's son, who waited fifty-nine years to inherit the throne.
47. Governor Sir Richard Bourke — One of the most progressive governors in colonial history.
48. State Library of NSW — State Library of New South Wales — the oldest library in Australia.
49. Parliament House — Parliament House New South Wales — the oldest parliament in Australia.
50. Sydney Hospital — Australia's oldest hospital, founded in 1788 with the First Fleet.
51. The Mint — The Sydney Mint — built in 1816.
52. Hyde Park Barracks — A UNESCO World Heritage site. Designed in 1819 by Francis Greenway, an architect who was himself a convict.
53. Queen & Albert — Statue of Queen Victoria — monarch for sixty-four years — and her devoted Prince Albert.
54. Martin Place — Sydney's grand pedestrian boulevard and civic heart.
55. Registrar-General's Building — A grand sandstone structure in the Federation Gothic style.
56. St Mary's Cathedral — The largest Catholic church in Australia.
57. Australian Museum — The oldest museum in Australia, founded in 1827.
58. Archibald Fountain — The Archibald Fountain is the grandest piece of public sculpture in Sydney, and it came to the city as a gift from a newspaper man.
59. Hyde Park North — The upper half of Australia's oldest public parkland, sixteen hectares in the heart of Sydney.
60. Hyde Park South & ANZAC Memorial — Hyde Park South — home to the ANZAC War Memorial, a solemn art deco tribute to Australians who served in war.
61. Royal Australian Navy Base — the most significant and restricted areas in Sydney — the main naval base for the Royal Australian Navy on the east coast.
62. Kings Cross (Southbound) — Kings Cross has been, for over fifty years, Sydney's most notorious nightlife strip and one of Australia's most fascinating neighbourhoods.
63. Kings Cross (Northbound) — Kings Cross is Sydney's legendary nightlife district and one of the most storied corners of the city.
64. Darlinghurst Courthouse — Built in 1844, this magnificent Greek Revival sandstone building is one of the oldest and most active courthouses in Australia.
65. Oxford St & The Columbian — As you travel down Oxford Street, you are moving along the historic route of the world-famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
66. Paddington & Victoria Barracks — Paddington is one of Sydney's most elegant inner-city suburbs, famous for its beautiful Victorian terraced houses with their intricate cast-iron lace balconies.
67. The Domain — The Domain spreads on both sides — a massive open space that serves as the "green lungs" of Sydney.
68. Art Gallery of NSW — The Art Gallery of New South Wales is one of Australia's finest cultural institutions.
69. Royal Botanic Garden — Thirty-one hectares of living beauty in the heart of Sydney.
70. Mrs Macquarie's Chair — One of Sydney's most photographed viewpoints.
71. Mrs Macquarie's Chair — Lookout — Mrs Macquarie's Chair was carved into this sandstone outcrop in 1810, on the orders of Governor Lachlan Macquarie, for his wife Elizabeth.
72. Woolloomooloo Wharf — Woolloomooloo — one of Sydney's most surprising corners, and a place that rewards those who venture off the main tourist trail.
73. Elizabeth Bay House — Elizabeth Bay House is one of Australia's finest colonial Greek Revival mansions, built in 1835 by Alexander Macleay, the colonial secretary of New South Wales.
74. Double Bay — Double Bay is Sydney's most glamorous harbourside village, and for decades the undisputed address of choice for the city's wealthiest residents.
75. Point Piper — Point Piper is Australia's most expensive suburb, and Wolseley Road, its spine, is the most expensive street in the country.
76. Rose Bay — Rose Bay was named in 1788, when Governor Arthur Phillip chose it for George Rose, a senior official at the British Treasury and one of his patrons in London.
77. Strickland House & the hidden beaches — Strickland House is the grand Italianate mansion behind the iron gates of this road.
78. Kincoppal-Rose Bay School — The majestic Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart is one of Sydney's most prestigious and historic educational institutions.
79. Nielsen Park, Vaucluse — Nielsen Park is the green heart of Sydney Harbour National Park, and for most of the nineteenth century it was private ground.
80. Shark Beach — Shark Beach is the swimming beach of Nielsen Park, and despite the name it is the safest swim in Sydney Harbour.
81. Vaucluse House — Vaucluse House is one of Sydney's few surviving 19th-century mansions still surrounded by its original gardens.
82. Luna Park & Milsons Point — Milsons Point sits directly beneath the massive northern approach of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
83. North Sydney — You are standing in Sydney's second city centre — a skyline of banks, insurers and technology firms looking straight across the water at its famous older brother.
84. Larkin Street Lookout — Larkin Street Lookout in Waverton, one of the most stunning and peaceful viewpoints on the North Shore.
85. Coal Loader & Aboriginal Petroglyphs — The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability was once a massive industrial hub where coal was transferred from ships to the rail system.
86. Bradleys Head — You have driven out onto Bradleys Head, an incredibly strategic promontory extending deep into Sydney Harbour.
87. Balmoral Beach — Balmoral Beach, widely considered the absolute jewel of Sydney's Lower North Shore.
88. Cremorne Point — Cremorne Point is a peaceful peninsula that was once anything but quiet.
89. Rosherville Reserve & Chinamans Beach — Rosherville Reserve, the gateway to the hidden Chinamans Beach.
90. Grotto Point Aboriginal Engravings — Hidden within the coastal heath of Grotto Point lies one of Sydney’s most sacred and impressive ancient sites.
91. Arabanoo Lookout — This lookout offers a breathtaking view of the entrance to Sydney Harbour, but it carries a poignant story.
92. Manly & The Ferry — Manly is the precinct famous for the slogan: "Seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care." The Manly Ferry ride has been cherished by Sydneysiders since the 1850s — a commute that crosses the Heads, the gap between…
93. Manly Beach & Parking — You have reached the vibrant shores of Manly Beach, the site of the world’s first surfing championship in 1964.
94. North Head — North Head is one of the most dramatic and historic headlands in Australia.
95. Watson's Bay — Watsons Bay is the oldest European settlement on the ocean side of Sydney Harbour, a fishing village at the tip of the South Head peninsula, eleven kilometres from the city centre.
96. Camp Cove Beach — Camp Cove is the beach where Sydney began. On the twenty-first of January 1788 Arthur Phillip sailed in through the Heads, and when darkness caught his party they pitched their tents on this sand — the camp that gave the…
97. South Head — South Head is the southern jaw of the harbour entrance, and everything that comes to Sydney by sea passes within a few hundred metres of this sandstone.
98. Lightkeeper's Cottages 1858 — The Lightkeeper's Cottages are the sandstone the keepers lived in, built in 1858 beside their light and designed by the same colonial architect, Alexander Dawson.
99. Hornby Lighthouse — Hornby Lighthouse, in red and white on the tip of South Head, was built in a hurry in 1858.
100. The Gap — The Gap is the cliff Sydney knows for two things. One is the wreck that happened below it — the clipper Dunbar, lost here in 1857 with all but one of her hundred and twenty-two people; her anchor is fixed to the rock a few…
101. The Gap Anchor — The Gap Anchor is what is left of the Dunbar, held against the sandstone above the cliff.
102. Macquarie Lighthouse — High on the cliffs stands Macquarie Lighthouse — Australia's very first lighthouse, and the longest continuously operating one in the country.
103. Dudley Page Reserve — The sweeping views from Dudley Page Reserve take in the entire Sydney skyline from the Harbour Bridge and Opera House to the towers of the CBD.
104. Diamond Bay — Diamond Bay Reserve — a small but spectacular clifftop lookout on the ocean side of the South Head peninsula, and one of Sydney's best-kept secrets.
105. Bondi Beach — Bondi Beach is perhaps the most famous beach in the world, and the beating heart of Sydney's surf culture.
106. Tamarama Beach — Tamarama Beach, affectionately known by locals as "Glamarama", is a small, stunning cove sandwiched between two steep headlands.
107. Bronte Beach — Bronte is the family favourite on the eastern coastal walk. Less crowded than Bondi, gentler in character, and blessed with a beautiful ocean pool at the southern end known as the Bronte Baths.
108. Centennial Park — Centennial Park is Sydney's grandest public park, and one of the great urban green spaces of the world.
109. Moore Park — Moore Park is the great green break between the city and the eastern suburbs — a hundred and fifteen hectares that began as common land set aside by Governor Macquarie and became a public park in 1866, named after Charles…
110. AGM Glass Factory — The A G M Glass Factory. For most of the twentieth century this corner was the biggest glassworks in Sydney — Australian Glass Manufacturers.
111. Fox Studios & Equestrian Centre — Fox Studios stands on what was, for more than a century, the Sydney Showground.
112. Federation Pavilion — It was here, on the first day of January 1901, that the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed — the moment six separate colonies became one unified nation.
113. The Aboriginal Grotto — The Ancient Tree and the Aboriginal Grotto are where living nature meets deep antiquity.
114. Surry Hills — Surry Hills is Sydney's most creative inner-city suburb, and a neighbourhood that has reinvented itself dramatically over the last century.
115. Crown Street, Surry Hills — Crown Street is the spine of Surry Hills — Sydney's most fashionable inner-city neighbourhood.
116. King Street, Newtown — King Street is the spine of Newtown — Sydney's most beloved alternative neighbourhood and the inner-west's bohemian heart.
117. Sydney Park brick kilns and chimneys — The four brick chimneys on the hill are all that is left of the Bedford brickworks, which dug clay out of this ground from the 1870s.
118. Tempe House and St Magdalen's Chapel — Tempe House was here a hundred and seventy years before the towers around it.
119. Brighton-Le-Sands and Lady Robinsons Beach — This whole beachfront was sandhills until a tram came down it.
120. Coogee Beach — Coogee Beach is one of Sydney's oldest and most beloved coastal suburbs.
121. Clovelly Beach — Clovelly Beach is one of Sydney's most unique and tranquil swimming spots.
122. La Perouse — La Perouse is one of the most historically significant places in all of Australia.
123. Macquarie Watchtower — The Macquarie Watchtower stands on the headland above Botany Bay, a small sandstone tower built in 1820 on the orders of Governor Macquarie.
124. La Perouse Monument — The La Perouse Monument is a stone column raised in 1825 by a French expedition, in memory of the man this whole headland is named after.
125. Bare Island Fort — Bare Island Fort sits on a rock off La Perouse, joined to the shore by a wooden footbridge.
126. David Jones — Australia's oldest and most prestigious department store, founded all the way back in 1838.
127. Sydney Fish Market — The Sydney Fish Market is the largest fish market in the Southern Hemisphere and the third largest seafood market in the world by variety, right after Tokyo and New York.
128. Glebe — Heritage Suburb — Glebe is one of Sydney's oldest and most fascinating inner-city suburbs.
129. Glebe Point Park & Fig Tree — Glebe Point Park is home to one of Sydney's most magnificent natural landmarks.
130. ANZAC Bridge — The ANZAC Bridge is one of Sydney's most striking landmarks.
131. Rushcutters Bay & Darling Point — Rushcutters Bay and Darling Point are two of the most exclusive and beautiful neighbourhoods in all of Sydney.
132. Swifts Mansion — Swifts. After Government House, this is the largest Victorian Gothic house left in Australia — sandstone towers and battlements, built between 1873 and 1882 for the brewer Robert Lucas-Tooth, who named it…
133. Circular Quay — Circular Quay is the historic ferry terminal where Sydney was born — Captain Arthur Phillip and his First Fleet anchored here in 1788.
134. Cadman's Cottage — Cadman's Cottage is the oldest surviving residential building in Sydney, constructed in 1816 as quarters for the colony's harbour boat crew.
135. Garrison Church (Holy Trinity) — The Garrison Church, officially Holy Trinity, is the oldest military church in Australia.
136. Dawes Point Park — Dawes Point Park stretches under the southern pylon of the Harbour Bridge — historically priceless ground.
137. Customs House — Customs House is one of Sydney's most beautiful sandstone buildings, completed in 1845 to manage the colony's booming shipping trade.
138. Argyle Cut — The Argyle Cut is a narrow stone passage carved straight through the hill that separates The Rocks from Millers Point.
139. Susannah Place Museum — Susannah Place is a row of four small terrace houses built in 1844 by an Irish couple, Edward and Mary Riley.
140. The Big Dig — The Big Dig is an open-air archaeological site on Cumberland Street, sheltered beneath a youth hostel raised above it on steel.
141. The Rocks Discovery Museum — The Rocks Discovery Museum is a four-room exhibition tucked inside a restored sandstone warehouse of the 1850s on Kendall Lane.
142. Sydney Tower Eye — Sydney Tower Eye is the city's tallest structure — three hundred and nine metres, a slender shaft crowned by a golden turret with a glass observation deck.
143. State Theatre — The State Theatre is one of Australia's most extravagant heritage interiors.
144. Strand Arcade — It opened on the first of April, 1892 — the fifth and last of the great Victorian arcades built in Sydney, and the only one still standing as it was built.
145. Queen Victoria Building — The Queen Victoria Building, known as the QVB, is a magnificent Romanesque-style building completed in 1898 that occupies an entire city block.
146. Martin Place & Matrix Fountain — The Matrix Fountain in Martin Place is the very location used in the 1999 science-fiction blockbuster The Matrix — the exact spot where Neo is distracted by the Woman in the Red Dress during his training simulation with…
147. Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf — The Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, also known as the Wool Wharf, is one of the most extraordinary buildings in the world.
148. Giant Moreton Bay Fig — Moreton Bay Fig stands here — a giant ficus tree that has stood for around two hundred years, making it one of the oldest and largest specimens in the Royal Botanic Garden.
149. Central Station — This is Central Station Sydney's largest railway terminal, opened in 1906.
150. Pitt Street Mall — Pitt Street Mall is Sydney's busiest pedestrian shopping street.
151. Westfield Sydney (Market St) — Westfield Sydney on Market St, the flagship shopping centre right in the heart of the CBD on Pitt Street Mall, between Market and Castlereagh Streets.
152. Darlinghurst — Darlinghurst is one of Sydney's most vibrant and diverse inner-city neighbourhoods.
153. Woollahra — Woollahra is one of Sydney's most refined and affluent suburbs.
154. Bellevue Hill — Bellevue Hill is consistently ranked as one of Australia's most expensive suburbs.
155. Randwick — Randwick is a bustling suburb that sits right between the green expanse of Centennial Park and the ocean beaches.
156. Captain Cook Statue — The Captain Cook statue on this corner honours the British explorer who charted the East Coast of Australia in 1770.
157. Randwick Hospital Campus — The Randwick Hospital Campus is one of Australia's most vital medical hubs.
158. Long Bay Correctional Complex — Long Bay Correctional Complex is the largest maximum-security prison in New South Wales, opened in 1909 on a bleak headland near Malabar.
159. Maroubra Beach — Maroubra Beach is one of Sydney's longest sandy stretches — a powerful one-kilometre crescent of sand on the city's southeastern coast.
160. Mahon Pool — Mahon Pool is one of Sydney's most photographed ocean rock pools — a small, naturally-rugged tidal swimming pool carved into the sandstone cliffs at Maroubra.
161. Anzac Parade — Anzac Parade is the most significant thoroughfare in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.
162. UNSW Sydney — UNSW Sydney spreads up the hill here — thirty-eight hectares that were a racecourse until the Second World War, handed to a new university in 1949 and built from the ground up as a school of technology.
163. Kingsford Smith Airport — Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, the busiest airport in Australia and one of the oldest continually operating commercial airports in the world.
164. The Lakes Golf Club — The Lakes Golf Club is one of Sydney's premier sandbelt-style courses, opened in 1928 on what was once swampland drained for the game.
165. The Australian Golf Club — The Australian Golf Club, established in 1882, is Australia's oldest golf club and the country's most exclusive sporting institution.
166. Paddy's Markets — Paddy's Markets, Sydney's oldest and most famous market, trading on this spot in Haymarket since 1834.
167. Westfield Bondi Junction — Westfield Bondi Junction, the largest shopping centre in Sydney's eastern suburbs and the closest major mall to the famous Bondi Beach.
168. DFO Homebush — Direct Factory Outlets — Sydney's largest outlet shopping destination, located in the heart of Sydney Olympic Park, about forty minutes drive west of the CBD.
169. Birkenhead Point Outlet — Birkenhead Point Outlet Centre, Sydney's premier waterfront outlet destination, sitting on a peninsula in Drummoyne with direct views across Iron Cove to the Anzac Bridge and the city skyline.
170. WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo — WILD LIFE Sydney Zoo, located right in the heart of Darling Harbour next to the Sydney Sea Life Aquarium and Madame Tussauds.
171. Taronga Zoo — Taronga Zoo is one of the most scenic zoos in the world, perched on the harbourside hills of Mosman with direct views across to the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
172. Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park — Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park, a family-run wildlife park in Doonside about forty minutes west of the CBD.
173. Sydney Zoo — Sydney Zoo is the newest major zoo in Australia, opened in December 2019 in Bungarribee, about forty-five minutes west of the city centre in Western Sydney Parklands.
174. Captain Bligh Statue — Captain William Bligh, cast in bronze on Circular Quay West, was the fourth Governor of New South Wales and the most maligned man in Australian history.
175. Wollemi Pine — The Wollemi pine is a tree that was supposed to be extinct. Its family goes back to the age of the dinosaurs, and until 1994 it was known only from fossils up to ninety million years old.
176. Yininmadyemi - Thou Didst Let Fall — Yininmadyemi, Thou didst let fall, is Sydney's memorial to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers: four seven-metre bullets standing, three shell casings fallen.
177. Anzac Memorial — The Anzac Memorial is New South Wales's monument to the First World War, and the finest Art Deco building in Sydney.
178. Angel Place - Forgotten Songs — Forgotten Songs hangs above Angel Place: about a hundred and twenty empty birdcages and, from hidden speakers, the calls of fifty species of birds that lived here before the city did.
179. Sirius Anchor — The Sirius Anchor in Macquarie Place is what is left of the flagship of the First Fleet.
180. Obelisk of Distances — The Obelisk of Distances in Macquarie Place is the zero point of New South Wales.
181. Campbell's Stores — Campbell's Stores stand on the west side of Sydney Cove, a row of sandstone warehouses with steep gabled roofs.
182. Lands Department Building — The Lands Department Building is a sandstone palace of the 1890s, and the office that measured the colony and gave it away.
183. Capella Sydney (old Department of Education) — Capella Sydney is a hotel inside the old Department of Education, a sandstone block begun in 1912 and finished only in 1930.
184. Agar Steps — Agar Steps climb from Kent Street to Observatory Hill, a sandstone stair cut in 1870 and named after Thomas Agars, a Kent Street merchant.
185. Argyle Stairs — Argyle Stairs lead from the Argyle Cut up to Cumberland Street, a stair of 1912, built when the Rocks was still a village of sailors and stevedores.
186. Dawes Point - Lower Fort Street — Dawes Point is where Sydney's oldest street meets its biggest bridge.

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By Andrew Sorokin, Sydney guide since 2006.