One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

Who, or what, is following Alice in Rymill Park?

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Despite an inauspicious start as a dumping ground for waste, the East Parklands gradually developed as an attractive centre for recreation in the city. 

Right in the centre of the city, Elder Park was a first stopping point for many new migrants arriving in South Australia.

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Originally painted by Carol Ruff and Barbary O'Brien in 1984 and modified by Driller Jet Armstrong in 1998.

Mike Maka’s mural features a tired rhinocerous carrying the city of Adelaide on its back.

Built in 1877 as a greenhouse for tropical plants, the Palm House was immediately hailed as the pride of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, and even of the city of Adelaide itself. It was the prized achievement of Dr Richard Schomburgk, the second and most renowned Director of the Botanic Garden. While it no longer houses tropical plants as originally intended, its restoration in the 1990s has meant that the Palm House is still a prominent part of the Botanic Garden experience.  It remains as the only known extant German-built glasshouse of the period anywhere in the world. 

The iconic figure of of 'Simpson and his Donkey' looks over War Memorial Drive from the Angas Garden.

In 1925/26 Thomas Sym Choon bought his four children a shop each.

The Torrens Lake Fountain commemorates the first time South Australia was visited by a reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II in 1954.