| Vienna’s main sites are located at the center of the city, within walking distance of each other. But no one should be fooled into thinking these can all be seen in one day; Vienna has a nearly inconceivably large collection of art and imperial relics. Vienna's museums are well-stocked with treasures thanks to the dedicated patronage of the Hapsburgs in years past and the many art schools in the area.
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| In the Belvedere Palace this collection of Euro art from 19th and 20th centuries is without a doubt one of Austria's best with works by Klimt and David's famous portrait of Napoleon on horseback. |
| The KunstHausWien houses a collection of drawings and paintings by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the architect and eco-visionary who called Vienna home in the later part of the 20th century. See an example of his work at the nearby Hunderwasser-Haus at the corner of Kegelstrasse and Lowengasse. 12-6E. |
| The Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna is a major, not-to-be-missed collection of contemporary art. |
| The Vienna Clock Museum is housed in a historical building built from medieval foundation walls and displays clocks of all stripes. |
| The Albertina holds the world’s largest collection of graphic art. |
| The Liechtenstein Museum has a princely collection of curios and antiques. |
| Kunst Historische Museum is currently closed, unfortunately. Some of the collection can be seen at the Belvedere Picture Gallery. |
| The Museum of Ethnology is all about the human race. |
| The upper and lower Belvedere Palaces contain an impressive collectionof the European masters in the Osterreichische Galerie. |
| The Hofburg is the former imperial palace: built in 1279, it was home to the Hapsburgs. Visitors can learn about the self-improving habits of Franz Joseph and his wife Elisabeth, nicknamed “Sissi,” who liked to sleep on spartan iron bedsteads and were later assassinated, setting off the first World War. |
| The Schonbrunn is a Versailles-style palace, complete with a garden labyrinth. |
| The old city center contains the beloved gothic Stephansdom, nicknamed “Der Alte Steffl” (Old Stevie) by besotted Viennese. The tiny, maze-like streets radiating from Stevie’s edges are full of pretty cafes, galleries, and small shops. |
| At the corner of Kegelstrasse and Lowengasse, this building was designed by the wacky architect Hundertwasser. |
| The Schatzkammer, or royal treasury, contains the 1000 year-old crown of the Holy Roman Empire, as well as relics supposedly obtained at the crucifixion of Christ! |
| At the Bergkapelle, the imperial chapel, you can hear the strains of the famous Vienna Boys Choir every Sunday at mass. |
| The Freud Museum is housed in Sigmund Freud’s former apartment; you can even see the couch on which his patients revealed their neuroses. It's 6-2 Euros. |
| The Wienerwald (the Vienna Woods) is a very big park at the terminus of the Alps; it’s full of small inns where one may pause for a glass of wine, and it was once the weekend haunt of such luminaries as Haydn, Shubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Strauss. |
| The Butterfly House is a series of greenhouses, some containing plants and one filled with many-colored, tiny wings. |
| A big ferris wheel runs year-round near the center of the Prater. |
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