A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

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

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

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

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

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

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

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

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.