The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

An ornate private entrance to the Vienna subway built specifically for the emperor.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

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

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

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

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

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

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

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

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

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

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

Museum featuring strange and enchanting toys of the past.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.