The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

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

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

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

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

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

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

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

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

One of a series of no-purpose kinetic artworks by Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.