While in Vienna, in between a few museums, I went to check out the main cathedral in Vienna, St. Stephen's. It has a massive gothic spire tower that is one of the most ornate and decorated that I have ever seen.
The roof itself, I think is pretty ugly, but it is impressive that it is tiled in a way that creates a giant mosaic.
Check out the vaulting of the roof, as well as the columns running through the cathedral.
The stained glass was nothing compared to St. Vitus, or any other cathedral I have seen.
Each of the columns had ornate stories and figures that were sculpted onto the column itself.
Some of the chapels were in the center of the cathedral instead of off to the sides.
The organ, was one of the more impressive features of the cathedral, this was only the center piece, there are one on each side of this centerpiece.
One of the columns toward the back of the cathedral had a stone staircase which led up to a stone pulpit. We even took a tour of the catacombs. They had rooms full of bones and a huge pit of plague victim bones. Since Vienna was the capital of the Hapsburg empire, there was a room full of Hapsburg bodies, and another room full of Hapsburg organs in jars., these jars were many times sent all over europe so that different countries can say that they have some parts of the Hapsburgs.
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