According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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

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

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.

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

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

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

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

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

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

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

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