Places cchimko Wants to Go

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

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

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

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

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

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

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.

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

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

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

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

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.

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

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.