An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

According to the local legend, these boys and ducks were turned to stone by an angered water goblin.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

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.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

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

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A park where the Inn and Ilz rivers join the Danube as it slinks off into Austria.

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

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

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

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.