Salzburg Cathedral

I've never been much of a fan of the great flat front facade of your typical Catholic Church. They always strike me as severely lacking in perspective. But they never fail to amaze once you get inside and this interior is a stunning example of early 17th Century Baroque. The site has a typically dramatic history of fires, disasters and incompetence that preceded this construction by many centuries (and then includes a bomb in WWII that destroyed the central dome). Today when you look up at the bible frescoes any hint of that history is blissfully absent. You risk a stiff neck.