The Burke and Wills Monument stands on a landscaped rise above town, giving Castlemaine a simple lookout with a peculiar piece of Australian mythology attached. The expedition's story ended badly in the interior, but the monument shows how quickly the explorers became national figures.
It is not a long visit. Go for the view over Castlemaine, the quiet walk up the hill, and the reminder that the goldfields were plugged into the wider ambitions and mistakes of colonial Australia.