Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

An engineering marvel at the time of its construction, this cross-border waterway sought to connect the Black Sea to the Baltic.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

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

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

American soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

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

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

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

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.