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

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

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

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

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

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

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

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

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

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

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

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

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.

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

This statue points to another unusual companion work of art often overlooked by visitors.

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.