A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

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

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

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

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

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

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

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

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

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

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

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

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.