Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

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.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A rather vulgar example of the transition from Latin to the Italian vernacular.

A grand Buddhist temple with Indian influences.

This shrine, built to protect against destructive waves, is home to two monumental lion heads.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A statue honoring a preeminent 19th-century dandy and important figure of men’s fashion.

With a history stretching back to the 16th century, this pub has a few stories to tell.

A quartet of tiled art pieces adorn the floors of this prestigious art museum.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.