Discover the 25 best places to visit in Austria, a country filled with imperial history, alpine scenery, and charming towns.

Lovely Salzburg, located 155 mi/240 km west of Vienna, is Austria's premier tourist city—it's as popular with Austrians as it is with visitors from the rest of the world. As a result, it can feel ...

Discover the 25 best places to visit in Austria, from imperial cities to alpine gems. Explore Vienna’s palaces and cultural treasures, Salzburg’s musical heritage, and Innsbruck’s mountain charm, ...

With its stunning Alpine peaks and placid crystal clear lakes, Austria is the epitome of idyllic. Positioned right in the middle of Europe, the German-speaking country boasts some of the most ...

The best way to get around Innsbruck is on foot. It's a walkable city with many of the top attractions in the old town or within walking distance from one another. There is also plenty of hiking, ...

Huddled under the serrated peaks of the Nordkette range, Innsbruck is a city where the mountains never seem far away. You can feel the crisp air on the morning breeze, see sunlight reflected off the ...

Slim Aarons’s 1960s photos of Lech—a snow-globe hamlet about two hours east of Zurich—make the village look like a dreamscape, something either conjured on a backlot at Disney or presumably long since ...

When a restaurant, hotel, street, town or city becomes “Insta-famous,” it seems it’s only a matter of time before overtourism follows behind. The Alpine village of Hallstatt, nestled in Austria’s ...