Places mariairisinc Wants to Go

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

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

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

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

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

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

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

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

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

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

A series of playful yellow penguins share a serious message about the environment.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.