Vienna, Austria
House Attack
The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.
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Vienna, Austria
The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.
Langseitenrotte, Austria
Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.
Bärnbach, Austria
Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.
Itter, Austria
German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.
Vienna, Austria
A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.
Vienna, Austria
The first modernist church in Europe.
Vienna, Austria
An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.
Vienna, Austria
The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.
Tarsdorf, Austria
English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.
Vienna, Austria
This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.
Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
Wattens, Austria
Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.
Vienna, Austria
A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Salzburg, Austria
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Vienna, Austria
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
Osinow Dolny, Poland
An installation at the border commemorates a battle from 972.
Kozłów, Poland
How did this desert wind up in the middle of a Polish forest?
Elblag, Poland
A striking church with a Tolkien-inspired nickname.
Kruszyniany, Poland
This wooden mosque is one of the few remnants of medieval Poland's Muslim Tatar community in this deeply Catholic country.
Jawor, Poland
This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.
Wrocław, Poland
This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.
Świebodzin, Poland
This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.
Sanok, Poland
An open-air museum of 18th-century homes and churches transported from various villages in Southern Poland.