Twelve reasons
to leave the coffee house.

Vienna likes things done properly.

The coffee comes on a little silver tray. The buildings are magnificent. Even the pastries seem to have been designed by someone with very high standards.

It's a city that knows how to present itself.

Which makes the stories that don't quite fit the picture all the more interesting.

There was a woman accused of witchcraft whose fate became part of Vienna's darker history. Two scientists whose names became tied to the same extraordinary discovery, though their careers took very different paths. And a woman who imagined an entirely different way of organizing domestic life.

Not everyone appreciated her ideas.

Elsewhere, a young singer became famous for a role in an opera that people still perform today. Queens lost their resting places. And women who helped shape the city's intellectual and cultural life were not always the ones whose names ended up on the walls.

Vienna has never been short of rules, institutions, or impressive men.

But its women have left traces in some unexpected places.

A fountain in a busy square. A university courtyard. An old cemetery. A building whose original purpose has almost disappeared from view.

Some stories are about the people who challenged the rules.

Others are about those who lived within them, negotiated them, or discovered what happened when society decided they had gone too far.

And there are legends, too.

Because beneath all that imperial grandeur, Vienna has always had a taste for strange stories.

Twelve places around the city offer a different perspective on its past.

Take your time with them.

Vienna, after all, is very good at keeping up appearances.

But it has never been quite as orderly as it looks.

You don't need to know what happens before you go. You only need somewhere worth walking toward.

JUNO PORTALS is designed primarily for women traveling alone.

That doesn't mean every experience has to be solitary. It means the product starts from a simple reality: sometimes you're already here, the day is yours, and you'd like a reason to go somewhere you might otherwise have passed.

Read the access note for the portal you choose. Some places are further out than they look on the map, and some are private or working places you only see from outside.

THE MUSE HAS HAD ENOUGH and HER OWN NAME depend on opening hours.

Prices and hours change. Check them on the day.

Curiosity gets you there. Your judgment always comes first.