Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

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

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

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

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

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

A mansion where wonders of Christmas are celebrated all year long.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

When the river dries up, these stones start talking.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.