A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

The first modernist church in Europe.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.