Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

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

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

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

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Designed as a reminder of one of the darkest moments in Austrian history.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

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

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

A set of outdoor stairs named in honor of a famous Austrian artist.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Brass plaques embedded in pavement preserve the memories of those who lost their lives at the hands of Nazis during World War II.

A sculpture of a beloved local figure, who tipped his top hat to everyone he passed on the streets of Bratislava.

An ode to a soldier who came to town, fell in love, then began making his own sparkling wine.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

A sculpture of the beloved author surrounded by characters from his fairy tales.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

A series of bronze circus performers spread throughout a Slovakian shopping center.

According to the local legend, these boys and ducks were turned to stone by an angered water goblin.

Also known as the Blue Church, the building was consecrated to the daughter of Andrew II.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.