Places NycterisBerna Wants to Go

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Celebrate the history of the lucky chimney sweep.

Vienna’s most overlooked celebrity is a Disney star.

Rediscovered underground chapel is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Vienna.

The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.

These two 15th-century metal rods allowed people to check if they were swindled or not.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

A gift from Emperor Franz Joseph I to his wife.

The first modernist church in Europe.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.