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These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha spent 18 years creating these monumental paintings of Slavic history and mythology.

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

A monument marks the site where the famed composer stopped to relieve himself on a long journey. Just one problem: Mozart never went to Raschala.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

A towering sword embedded in the ground commemorates the legendary Slavic ruler.

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

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

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

Celebrate the history of the lucky chimney sweep.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

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

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

An unconventional memorial to the women burned as witches in Bratislava.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.