Places SL Wants to Go

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Celebrating the Eucharist, the day is a legal holiday in many parts of Germany.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

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

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

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

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

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

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

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

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.