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Tourist attractions
Vienna's major tourist attractions include the imperial palaces of the Hofburg and Schönbrunn (also home to the world's oldest zoo, Tiergarten Schönbrunn) and the historical Riesenrad (Ferris wheel) in the Prater, a popular amusement park.
 Cultural highlights include the Burgtheater, the Wiener Staatsoper, the Lipizzaner horses at the spanische Hofreitschule and the Vienna Boys' Choir, as well as excursions to Vienna's Heuriger districts, where Austrian folklore gets to be celebrated with a lot of regional wine, singing, some more wine and a great deal of genuine Austrian Gemütlichkeit.
There are also more than 100 art museums, which together attract over eight million visitors per year.[1] The most popular ones are Albertina, Belvedere, Leopold Museum in the Museumsquartier, KunstHausWien, BA-CA Kunstforum, the twin Kunsthistorisches Museum and Naturhistorisches Museum and the Technisches Museum Wien, each of which receives over a quarter of a million visitors per year.[11]
There are many popular sites associated with composers who lived in Vienna including Beethoven's various residences and his grave at Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) which is the largest cemetery in Vienna and the burial site of many famous people. Mozart has a memorial grave at the Habsburg gardens and at St. Marx cemetery.
Vienna's many churches (Kirche) also draw large crowds, the most famous of which are St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Deutschordenskirche, the Jesuitenkirche, the Karlskirche, the Peterskirche, Maria am Gestade, the Minoritenkirche, the Ruprechtskirche, the Schottenkirche and the Votivkirche.
Modern attractions include the Hundertwasserhaus, the United Nations headquarters and the view from the Donauturm.
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