Hidden places in Austria

A blue-towered abbey and a castle ruin in the Wachau wine valley.

A lake town with a glacier and alpine peaks right above it.

A lakeside village tucked below steep mountains.

Tyrol's largest lake, nicknamed the Fjord of the Alps.

A high alpine road to Austria's highest mountain and its glacier.

Austria's highest waterfalls, falling in three huge steps.

A shallow steppe lake with reed beds and birdlife, an hour from Vienna.

Forested hills and vineyards on Vienna's doorstep.

A lake village in the Salzkammergut below the Schafberg mountain.

A red-roofed old town below a hill with a clock tower.

An alpine city with mountains rising straight behind the old town.

Imperial palaces, coffee houses and music.

Baroque domes below a hilltop fortress, with the Alps as a backdrop.