Places Jes Wants to Go

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

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

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

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

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

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

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

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

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

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

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

Hungarian self-built castle.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.