Morbid, eerie and spooky: The dark sides of Vienna

Karl Kraus was rarely in a really good mood and never actually laughed, but the fact that he dubbed Vienna an "experimental station for the end of the world" is quite something. Alfred Polgar, on the other hand, saw Vienna as a "merry grave on the Danube," which sounds a bit more appealing and is more reminiscent of a wine-loving Viennese song. We follow the voluntary and involuntary traces of the dead and the undead, the buried and the washed up, the tortured and the supposedly foolish in Vienna.

Anyone who strolls through Vienna's quaint old town today and is receptive to it often comes across the city's dark past - you just have to keep your eyes open. Or have a travel guide and tourist guide who will take you to exactly these "Platzerln".

Death must be a Viennese ...

... or so a song by Georg Kreisler goes.  I'd say let's go explore some graves!