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13/10/2026

A must see in Vienna: the Belvedere Palace. ☀️

This morning my group and I set off early to beat the crowds, and we were lucky enough to see the Baroque palace glowing in the morning sun. Then came the real treat, an exclusive pre-opening tour of the Upper Belvedere, with Gustav Klimt’s golden masterpiece “The Kiss” all to ourselves. ✨

Seeing it without the crowds is pure magic. Want to experience Vienna’s highlights before everyone else? Join one of my private guided tours via the link in bio.

📍 Upper Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

10/10/2026

The Viennese conman who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. 🗼

In 1925, Victor Lustig sat in Vienna’s Hotel Imperial under a false name, scanning the papers for a scandal that never broke. Days earlier in Paris, he’d sold the Eiffel Tower to a scrap metal dealer, who was far too embarrassed to go to the police.

So what did Lustig do next? He hopped on the Orient Express and sold it all over again.

This time it didn’t quite go to plan. He fled to America, swindled none other than Al Capone and somehow lived to tell the tale. Years later, the two met again as fellow inmates on Alcatraz.

Vienna is full of stories like this, hiding in plain sight. 🕵️

📍 Join me on a Hidden Vienna walking tour, link in bio
👉 Follow for more true crime and hidden history from Vienna

19/08/2026

Welche Krankheiten haben Wien einst heimgesucht?

Auf unserer neuen Führung durch den Spittelberg im 7. Bezirk gehen wir dieser Frage auf den Grund. Unser Spezialist, der Pathologe Dr. Roland Sedivy, wirft einen tiefen Blick in die Krankenakte der Stadt.

Diese Tour ist für Wiener*innen, die abseits der Klischees eine spannende und ungewöhnliche Seite ihrer Stadt entdecken wollen, mit mehr Tiefgang als die üblichen Touren.

📍 Spittelberg, 7. Bezirk
🎟️ Link in Bio

04/06/2026

I’d walked past this building a hundred times. I had no idea what was hidden inside. 🪄

Architect Heinz Frank didn’t just design spaces — he built his entire flat around his own body, needs, and philosophy. A living artwork. Unlike anything I’d ever seen in Vienna.

This is exactly why I love what I do. The city keeps surprising me.

His daughter is now preserving his extraordinary legacy — and if you ever get the chance to see it, don’t hesitate.

📍 Hidden in plain sight, somewhere in Vienna 👀

10/05/2026

Three boys from Vienna’s poorest slum ended up performing for the Queen — and partying with Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas. 🎩
The Carsony Brothers are one of Vienna’s greatest forgotten stories. Karl, Josef, and Engelbert Schrom grew up in the Hasenleitensiedlung in Simmering — 16 kids, one of the city’s most desperate slums. By the 1950s, they were world-famous acrobats.
A POW camp in Colorado. A one-handed handstand on a ch*****ne bottle. Skyscraper stunts. Las Vegas. A royal performance in London. Nights with Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis.
And then it all fell apart.
This is the Vienna most tourists never see. 👇 Follow for more hidden history — and join me on a walking tour to hear the full story.

01/05/2026

Vienna’s Goethe Monument is radioactive — and under current radiation protection laws, its granite pedestal would technically require a permit to exist as a radiation source.
The culprit? Thorium-232, a naturally occurring radioactive element baked into the stone. And here’s the twist: granite was never even the original plan. The monument was supposed to be built entirely from marble — but the budget ran out. A classic Viennese compromise, with an unexpected radioactive footnote.
The dose is far too low to cause any harm. But it’s the kind of detail that changes how you look at a city you thought you knew.
📍 Vienna’s Goethe Monument | Burggarten
🕺 Hidden Vienna Walking Tours — the history the guidebooks skip

26/04/2026

This building on Vienna’s grand Ringstraße hides a story that lay buried for nearly 60 years. Right next to the Austrian Parliament stands Palais Epstein — one of the most opulent addresses on the Ring. But beneath its gilded façade, something far darker unfolded.
After World War II, the palace became the headquarters of the Soviet city commandatura — and the NKVD secret police operated from within its walls. Prisoners were held here, waiting for interrogations, not knowing whether they’d ever walk out again. In desperation, they scrawled farewell notes to their families and hid them in window niches and cracks in the walls — hoping someone would find them one day.
No one did. Not until 2004, when renovations uncovered dozens of these hidden messages. You can see them for yourself on one of the free guided tours of the Austrian Parliament — one of Vienna’s most overlooked hidden stories, right in plain sight.

12/04/2026

Why did the U.S. government send a tree to Vienna in 1930? 🌳🇺🇸

At the opening of this public housing complex, the U.S. ambassador personally attended to present a gift to the city.
To mark the 200th birthday of George Washington, the building was named after the American revolutionary — and a walnut tree from George Washingtons own garden in Vermont was given as a symbol of friendship.

Where exactly the tree once stood remains a mystery.
And with a housing complex this massive, it is hard to find.

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