Vienna, Austria: Office of the Federal Chancellor

It's not the Austrian equivalent of the White House, but it's close.

For more than 200 years, this has been the office of the top Cabinet Minister in Austria. That gives him the title of Chancellor; you might be more comfortable with Prime Minister. By the way, the President of Austria is in a different building.

This is where Metternich held the Congress of Viennam, which transformed Europe in the post-Napoleon world. It's where the Nazis murdered the Chancellor in 1934. And it where Kurt von Schuschnigg told his fellow Austrians after Nazi Germany annexed his nation, "Gott schütze Österreich" ("God save Austria"). That's a lot of drama in one building.

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