The Riversleigh Fossil Discovery Centre brings the remote World Heritage fossil fields into town. Riversleigh itself is hundreds of kilometres away, but the centre gives travellers the context: ancient rainforest, extinct marsupials, fossil preparation, and why this corner of Queensland matters to palaeontology.
It pairs naturally with the Hard Times Mine tour at Outback at Isa. One explains the city's mining present; the other explains the deep-time landscape around it.