Places SamWandersEarth Wants to Go

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

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

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

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

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

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

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

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

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

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.