Places rereads247 Wants to Go

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

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

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

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

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

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

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

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

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

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

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

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

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.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

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

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.