Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

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

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

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

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

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

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.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

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

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

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

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

More than a millennium's worth of municipal records preserve the political history of Austria.

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.