Places cyriellegiger Wants to Go

Of all the houses that grace this neighborhood, only one is a testament to surreal architecture.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

Water gushes from the trunk of this miraculous mulberry tree about once a year.

This virtually windowless mass of smooth concrete is the only Catholic church in the city.

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

The first modernist church in Europe.

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

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

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

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

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

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

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

More than a millennium's worth of municipal records preserve the political history of Austria.

A set of outdoor stairs named in honor of a famous Austrian artist.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

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

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

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

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

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

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