Finger Wharf

A former wool and cargo dock, the anatomically named Finger Wharf faced oblivion for decades before a 2½-year demolition-workers’ green ban on the site in the late 1980s saved it. It received a huge sprucing up in the late ’90s and has emerged as one of Sydney’s most exclusive eating, drinking, sleeping and marina addresses. It’s still a public wharf, so feel free to explore the innards, past industrial conveyor-belt relics, the five-star hotel BLUE and its designery Water Bar. Along the way the wharf’s history is etched into glass walls. You might even squeeze in some star-spotting – cheesy songbird Delta Goodrem and everyman-megastar Russell Crowe have plush pads here.