Places csieminski Wants to Go

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

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

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

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

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

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

On this spot in 1989, nearly a thousand people broke through the Iron Curtain.

The remains of a 13th-century Romanesque church lie abandoned on a hillside.

This castle was designed to have as many windows as there are days in the year.

The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.

This castle played host to the largest great hall found in medieval Central Europe.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.