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.

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

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

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. 

Opening in 1933, inheriting the place of a cinema which had existed on the spot since 1910, the Rex Theatre was a popular cinema on Rundle Street that was demolished in 1961.

Remembering the role of horses in war.