Places aemem Wants to Go

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

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

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

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

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

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

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

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

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

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

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.

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

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.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.