Places Sahakiel Wants to Go

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

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

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

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

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

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

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.