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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

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

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

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

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

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

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

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A frozen relic of Seattle's hydroelectric boom is now a teaching facility for future engineers.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A mini Wrigley Field for mini baseball players.

At this Wisconsin museum there are real ducks, fake ducks, duck calls and a Duck Blind.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.