There are so many wondrous things to see and do in Austria, it’s hard to choose. Here are some of our favorites:
• The Clock Museum in Vienna is filled with over 1,000 clocks, one of which is calibrated to run until the year of 9999. This astronomical clock features layers of golden gears and over 30 readings and dials. Each hand takes 20,000 years to revolve. This museum is housed in the Harpist’s House, one of the oldest homes in Vienna.• Starkenberger Beer Pools in Tarrez is a favorite place where brew-lovers congregate. The pools began in 2005 in an old fermentation cellar of the Starkenberger Castle and became a beer spa where you soak can up the vitamins and calcium in the warm pools and enjoy an entire beer-centered experience.• Schloss Hellbrunn in Salzburg features trick water gardens from 1619. Built over natural springs, Schloss Hellbrunn was a marvelous way to while the days away with the archbishop of Salzburg, Markus Sittikus. The Salzburg zoo and the Steintheater, a repurposed rock quarry turned amphitheater, share the grounds. A folklore exhibition displays traditional costumes, furniture styles and trends reflecting Austrian life in the 1600s.