Places blackwidow Wants to Go

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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

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

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

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

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

Housed in an old British jail, this spot serves up Georgian, Russian, and Ukrainian specialities with a side of Turkish history.

This crucial gathering spot along the "hippie trail" still displays old notes between traveling beatniks and backpackers.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.