Sacred Spaces in Austria

This medieval church in a small Austrian village is home to a 700-year-old Mickey Mouse lookalike.

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

The first modernist church in Europe.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Home of controversial poet priest who penned the words for the Austrian national anthem used in the 1930s.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

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

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

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

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Site of the 1889 murder-suicide of crown prince Rudolf and his lover Mary Vetsera.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

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

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