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A museum capturing one of the world's most famous classical composer's battle with hearing loss.

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

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

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

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

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

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

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

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

This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.