Graz, Austria
Der Kleine Elefant
This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.
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Graz, Austria
This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.
Graz, Austria
Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.
Graz, Austria
Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Salzburg, Austria
These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.
Salzburg, Austria
Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.
Salzburg, Austria
Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.
Vienna, Austria
Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.
Vienna, Austria
Journey through a mesmerizing array of board games inside this museum.
Vienna, Austria
This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.
Vienna, Austria
A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.
Vienna, Austria
A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.
Vienna, Austria
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Vienna, Austria
Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.
Vienna, Austria
One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.
Vienna, Austria
The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.
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Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.
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An exhibit dedicated to a physicist who dedicated his life to proving the existence of UFOs.