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A serene, almost spiritual place to do one's business. Who knew a public toilet could inspire and awe?

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

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

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.