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Gasteiner Museum
Tap into the source of Bad Gastein at this museum, which spells out the towns history and the wonders of its thermal waters, from the bath-loving Romans to the Romantic painters inspired by its waterfall. The collection spans everything from Krampus (devil) costumes to vintage tour
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Stuibenfall
From Ötzi Dorf, it’s a beautiful 20-minute forest walk to Tyrol’s longest waterfall, the wispy Stuibenfall, cascading 159m over slate cliffs and moss-covered boulders. You can continue for another 40 minutes up to the top viewing platform and hanging bridge. A thrilling new 450m Kl
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Haus der Fasnacht
Every four years, Imst plays host to a Shrovetide festival, the Unesco-listed Schemenlaufen (ghost dance); the next takes place on 31 January 2016. The highlight is the vibrant parade of characters, from hunchback Hexen (witches) to Spritzer that squirt water at spectators. This mu
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Museum der Wahrnehmung
Exploring sensory illusions, the Museum of Perception features a small changing exhibition of art that has a close or distant relationship to perception, as well as gadgets that help you explore illusion for yourself. The samadhi (meditative) bath is a therapeutic bath that deprive
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Museum für Volkskunde
Housed in turn-of-the-18th-century Palais Schönborn, this folklore museum gives a taste of 18th- and 19th-century rural dwellings, and is stocked with handcrafted sculptures, paintings and furniture from throughout Austria and its neighbouring countries. Many of the pieces have a r
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Friedhof St Sebastian
Tucked behind the baroque Sebastianskirche (St Sebastian’s Church), this peaceful cemetery and its cloisters were designed by Andrea Berteleto in Italianate style in 1600. Mozart family members and well-known 16th-century physician Paracelsus are buried here, but out-pomping them a
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Steingasse
On the right bank of the Salzach River, this narrow, cobbled lane was, incredibly, the main trade route to Italy in medieval times. Look out for the 13th-century Steintor gate and the house of Joseph Mohr , who wrote the lyrics to that all-time classic of a carol ‘Silent Night’. Th
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Pfarrkirche St Veit
Known as the ‘Cathedral of the Wachau’, the large baroque parish church boasts colourful frescoes by Martin Johann Schmidt, an 18th-century local artist who was also known as Kremser Schmidt and occupied a house from 1756 near the Linzer Tor in Stein. The baroque building is the wo
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Greek Orthodox Church
Built in 1861 at the behest of the Greek community, the interior of Vienna’s main Greek Orthodox church is a glittering blaze of Byzantine designs. A ceiling fresco depicting the prophets surrounded by swirls of gold is augmented by a high altar of 13 panels, each of which features
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Gloriette
From 1772 to 1780 Ferdinand Hetzendorf added some of the final touches to the palace park under the instructions of Joseph II. The crowning glory, the Gloriette was added in 1775. The view from the Gloriette, looking back towards the palace with Vienna shimmering in the distance, r
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Jüdisches Museum
Housed inside Palais Eskeles, Vienna’s Jüdisches Museum showcases the history of Jews in Vienna, from the first settlements at Judenplatz in the 13th century to the present. A new permanent exhibition on Jewry in the 21st century was due to open in 2013, complementing spaces mostly
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Oberes Belvedere
Oberes Belvedere is one of those ‘must sees’ for visitors to Vienna. Its collection of art offers a deep insight into Austrian artists in particular, and secondly this baroque palace is a sublime masterpiece whose interior allows you to drift with the ebb and flow of the ages, from
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Esperantomuseum
The oft-overlooked Esperantomuseum is mostly devoted to the artificial language created by Dr Ludvik Zamenhof in 1887. The first book in Esperanto, by Dr Zamenhof himself, features among interesting exhibits on artificial languages, such as language used in the Star Trek TV series
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Rolls
Situated at the bottom of Rappenlochschlucht and ensconced in a 19th-century cotton mill, this museum harbours the world’s largest collection of Rolls-Royces. Highlights include a reconstruction of Royce’s Cooke Street factory in Manchester and a hall of fame showcasing vintage Rol
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Stift Heiligenkreuz
About 20km from Mödling is Heiligenkreuz and the 12th-century Cistercian abbey Stift Heiligenkreuz . The chapter house is the final resting place of most of the Babenberg dynasty, which ruled Austria until 1246. The abbey museum contains 150 clay models by Giovanni Giuliani (1663–1
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Synagoge
St Pöltens main synagogue dates from 1912 and has attractive art-nouveau features. The Nazis laid it to waste during the pogroms of 1938, and during the Hitler years the building wound up in the hands of the city council, which used it as a camp for Russian forced labour victims be
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Kunsthalle
The flagship of Krems Kunstmeile, an eclectic collection of galleries and museums, the Kunsthalle has a program of small but excellent changing exhibitions. These can home in on anything from mid-19th-century landscapes to today’s concept art. Guided tours (€3) run on Sundays at 2p
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Sternwarte
The star attraction is the 50m-high Sternwarte , dedicated to numerous schools of natural history. Spanning seven floors, the mind-boggling collection steps from fossilised starfish to the skeleton of an Ice Age cave bear. It’s a giddy climb up a spiral staircase to the top floor,
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Heroes’ Gate
This pseudo-medieval gate was erected in 1932 (when these nostalgic portals were all the rage in Hungary) to mark the 400th anniversary of Suleiman’s withdrawal; memorials under the gate commemorate Hungary’s fallen in WWI and WWII. Attached is the General’s House , a small museum
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Lainzer Tiergarten
At 25 sq km, the Lainzer Zoo is the largest (and wildest) of Vienna’s city parks. The ‘zoo’ refers to the abundant wild boar, deer, woodpeckers and squirrels that freely inhabit the park, and the famous Lipizzaner horses that summer here. Apart from the extensive walking possibili
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