• Ballarat
• Castlemaine
• Maryborough

• Avoca
• Bacchus Marsh
• Bealiba
• Boort
• Clunes
• Dunolly
• Heathcote
• Inglewood
• Kyneton
• Macedon
• Maldon
• St Arnaud
• Sunbury
• Tarnagulla
• Wedderburn
• Woodend

National Parks

• Brisbane Ranges National Park
• Greater Bendigo National Park
• Organ Pipes National Park
• St Arnaud Range National Park

Natural Attractions

• Bacchus Marsh: Werribee Gorge State Park; Brisbane Ranges National Park; Lerderderg State Park; Long Forest Flora Reserve
• Ballarat: Lake Wendouree; Lake Burrumbeet; Lal Lal Falls; Moorabool River; Enfield State Park
• Bendigo: Bendigo Regional Park; Greater Bendigo National Park; Lake Weeroona; Whipstick State Forest
• Boort: Lake Boort; Little Lake Boort
• Castlemaine: Vaughan Mineral Springs (13 km south west at Yapeen); Mount Alexandra Koala Park
• Charlton: Wychitella State Forest; Wooroonook Lakes
• Clunes: Mt. Beckworth Scenic Reserve (rock climbing)
• Daylesford: Hepburn Regional Park; Creswick Regional Park; Lake Daylesford; Hepburn natural springs (3 km north); Wombat Hill; Jubilee Lake; Breakneck Gorge; Trentham Falls; Mt. Franklin (13 km north, an extinct volcano)
• Elmore: Whipstick State Forest; Lake Thunderbird; Lake Corop
• Heathcote: McIvor Range; Viewing Rock Lookout; Argyle forest; Mt. Camel Range
• Inglewood: Kooyoora State Park
• Kyneton: Campaspe River
• Macedon: Hanging Rock (The movie); Mt. Macedon (Macedon Range and Mt. William); Organ Pipes National Park; The Camels Hump
• St Arnaud: St Arnaud Range National Park; Kara State Forest.
• Wedderburn: Wychitella State Forest (conserves a remnant of mallee forest that is a sanctuary for native wildlife); Mt. Korong

Caves

• Inglewood: Melville Caves (19 km west in Kooyoora State Park), a series of cavities and fissures in a cluster of huge granite rocks used by bushranger Captain Melville (Francis McNeish Mcneill McCallum) as his hideout

Waterfalls

• Ballarat: Lal Lal Falls
• Daylesford: Sailors Falls; Loddon River Falls; Trentham Falls

Historic Places

• Castlemaine: Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park; Wattle Gully Gold Mine; Garfield Water Wheel (Chewton, 4 km south of Castlemaine). Herons Reef Gold Diggings displays early methods of gold extraction and an authentic digger's hut dating back to 1867; historic buildings - Town Market (1861); historic buildings
• Charlton: Charlton Golden Grain Museum; St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (1871)
• Clunes: Clunes Central Conservation Area
• Dunolly: Historical Museum; Tarnagulla ghost town (13 km north east); historic buildings
• Inglewood: General Store Museum; sites of the major gold nugget finds are signposted; historic buildings
• Kyneton: historic buildings
• Macedon: Emu Bottom Homestead
• Maldon: Maldon Historic Reserve; Union Mine Kilns; Beehive Chimney; Carman's Tunnel Goldmine (2 km from Maldon); historic buildings; Historic shops in Maldon
• Maryborough: Pioneer Memorial Tower; Simpson memorial cairn; historic buildings; Civic Square Conservation Area
• Smeaton: Smeaton House (1844-50); Hepburn graves, Smeaton House; Oatmeal Mill and Water Wheel
• St Arnaud: Pioneer Park; Many of the town's Victorian era buildings are protected by the National Trust
• Wedderburn: historic buildings

Misc. Places of Interest

• Avoca: Pyrenees wine region; historic buildings
• Ballarat: Ballarat Botanical Gardens; Victory Arch and Avenue of Honour (22 km long on Burrumbeet Rd); Eureka Military Museum; Sovereign Hill Historic Park; Flagstaff Hill Lookout; Shell House; Kryal Castle; Dinosaur World; various historic buildings including Great Southern Woolshed; Eureka Stockade Memorial; Adam Gordon Lindsay's cottage (1867)
• Bendigo: Central Deborah Mine; The Bendigo Whipstick (10 km north); historic buildings including Shamrock Hotel; Chinese Joss House; Sacred Heart Cathedral (completed 1977); Sandhurst Town (recreation of a gold town at Myers Flats, 10 km north west of Bendigo); Hartland's Eucalyptus Oil Factory; Bendigo tramway
• Boort: Boort Historical Museum
• Carisbrook: Tullarop Creek Aboriginal stone arrangements and sacred sites (one of only four remaining Aboriginal stone arrangements in Victoria)
• Charlton: Wooroonook Lake (swimming and boating); Bish Deer Farm; Charlton Weir
• Daylesford: Central Highlands Tourist Railway; Hepburn Spa Complex
• Elmore: Campaspe Run Rural Discovery Centre; Waranga-Malee irrigation channels
• Heathcote: Pink cliffs (eroded mining spoil); Lake Eppalock (Victoria's fourth largest reservoir); historic Powder Magazine (1864); Mt. Camel Range Aboriginal stone quarries
• Kyneton: Campaspe River; Lauriston Reservoir; Malmsbury Reservoir
• Macedon: Memorial Cross (at the summit of Mt. Macedon); Civil Defence training Centre; Calder Raceway; Mt. Macedon Gardens; Macedon area Aboriginal site
• Maldon: Victorian Goldfields Railway (vintage steam railway on original line through the area)
• Maryborough: Anderson's Mill; Turraloop Dam (1959)
• St Arnaud: Botanic Gardens, Kara Kara Vineyard; Stuart Mill (23 km south); Teddington and Volcano Reservoirs