Graben & Plague Column
Graben, Innere Stadt, Vienna, 1010, Austria
You're walking on a filled-in Roman ditch.
Heldenplatz
Heldenplatz, Innere Stadt, Vienna, 1010, Austria
Heroes' Square was supposed to be one half of a grand Imperial Forum connecting the Hofburg to the Natural History and Art History museums across the Ringstrasse.
Kapuzinergruft (Imperial Crypt)
2 Tegetthoffstraße, Innere Stadt, Vienna, 1010, Austria
Beneath an unremarkable Capuchin church on the Neuer Markt lies the final resting place of 149 Habsburg rulers, their spouses, and family members — 400 years of European power entombed in elaborate metal coffins guarded by barefoot monks.
Narrenturm
2 Spitalgasse, Alsergrund, Vienna, 1090, Austria
Emperor Joseph II built Europe's first dedicated psychiatric institution in 1784, and it looked exactly like what you'd expect from a man who believed mental illness could be cured with architecture: a perfectly circular five-storey tower with cells arranged around a central courtyard, designed so patients could exercise in a controlled circle and never find a corner to hide in.
Third Man Sewers
Girardipark (near Karlsplatz), 1040 Vienna
In 1949, Orson Welles ran through these sewers as the black marketeer Harry Lime, and a network of cholera-era drainage tunnels became one of the most famous film locations in cinema history.
Zentralfriedhof
Simmeringer Hauptstraße 234, 1110 Vienna
Vienna's Central Cemetery is the second-largest cemetery in Europe by area and holds roughly three million burials across 2.
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