Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

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

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

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

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

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

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

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

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

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, standing at this site just outside Vienna, Austria, the sky would have been found beneath your feet.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

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

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.