The Bunker Mödling on the outskirts of Vienna is staging a macabre show of nasty moments in six centuries of the imperial ruling family.
Highlights are a transvestite archduke, an epileptic imbecile and the world-resounding apparent double suicide.
Organisers say they are besieged by Japanese visitors.
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