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Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The father of the sewing machine died broke, but this small, free museum is dedicated to the unsung inventor.

A secret hotel room can be found inside this clocktower in the oldest city in Austria.

A rebuilt Roman city that was once the largest Roman settlement in the region.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

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

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

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

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

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

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

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

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

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

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.