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A history of heat is on display at this unique Austrian museum.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

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.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

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

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

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

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

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

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

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

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.