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

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

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.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

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

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

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

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

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

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

This former atomic bunker is now the Olomouc Institute of Remembrance, telling stories of the communist era.

A stream flows near the radioactive spa, where people place handmade miniatures of water mills and other strange devices.

These small, brass stones commemorate the first Roma victims of the Holocaust.

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

The medieval "Bearded Man" relief still serves as a clever flood warning marker.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.