Vienna, Austria
Gasometer Town
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
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Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
Vienna, Austria
The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.
Vienna, Austria
Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
Vienna, Austria
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Vienna, Austria
The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
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The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.
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This Cold War siren is one off the last of its kind still standing with its immensely powerful original horn.
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