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This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

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

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

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

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

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

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

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

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

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.