Adelaide Arcade was opened in 1885 and was hailed as the most modern shopping precinct in the Southern Hemisphere.

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.

Built in 1896, Beehive Corner with its Neo-Gothic facade has been a famous meeting spot since the early 20th century.

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.

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

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

Montefiore Hill, overlooking the city planned by Colonel William Light, was named after South Australian Colonization Commissioner Jacob Montefiore

The Museum of Economic Botany features exhibits outlining the practical and economic use of plant materials. 

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.