Places Cost Wants to Go

This small corner bar is home to a rare 1930s dance organ that still plays tunes for one Euro.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

A wonderfully kitsch bookstore the size of a supermarket.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

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

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

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

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

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

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

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

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

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

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

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

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

A statue that stood at the center of a long copyright battle.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

Small Easter eggs are hidden in the ventilation holes of the city's newest trains.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.