An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

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

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

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

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

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

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The largest caravanserai in Cyprus also includes amazing examples of Ottoman architecture.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

This Ottoman bridge is a rare covered bridge with shops, and considers itself the only bazaar bridge in the world.

Taking the subway here means doing so over a bridge located in the middle of an estuary.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.