The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

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

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Hungarian self-built castle.

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