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Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

One of the most notable figures in the Wurstelprater’s history is often assumed to be a fictional character.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

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

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

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

These relics of the city's past now exist as a prominent modern feature.

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

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

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

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.