Places GRH Wants to Go

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Narrow-gauge railway with its own personal power grid.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

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

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

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

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

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

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

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The largest underground lake in Europe.