Places Pengwn Wants to Go

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

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

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

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

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

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

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

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

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

In the town of Třeboň, carp is king.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

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

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

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.