Vienna, Austria
Palmenhaus
Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.
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Vienna, Austria
Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.
Vienna, Austria
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
Vienna, Austria
This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.
Wiesloch, Germany
This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.
Darmstadt, Germany
This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.
Chemnitz, Germany
One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.
Kobe, Japan
An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.
Malinalco, Mexico
The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Keld, England
The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.
Gdynia, Poland
A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.
Vienna, Austria
The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.
Saint-Cloud, France
The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.
Brussels, Belgium
A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium
Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.
Brussels, Belgium
When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.
Brussels, Belgium
Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Brussels, Belgium
The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.
Brussels, Belgium
This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.