Lots of great skiing mountains also double as...  ...trails in the warmer months. However this area in Austria has got to be the only place this doubles as a hi...

The Bregenz Festival brings opera to the shore...  ...opera to the shores of Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria in July and August. They are now building the sta...

In 1983, Fritz Gall and Friedl Umscheid opened the...  ...l Umscheid opened the Nonseum in Herrnbaumgarten, Austria . The Nonseum is a home for inventions that never...

(YouTube link) Now I want a horn suit! Not that I could play it like Koni can... Link -via the Presurfer...

It was the perfect place to grow marijuana: a sect...  ...only one zookeeper had access to. A zookeeper in Austria thought he would never be caught. Salzburg Hellb...  ...us tip-off by "customer" of the offender. http:// austrianindependent .com/news/General_News/2010-09-20/4626/Rhino_carer...

The roof of the reptile house caught on fire at th...  ...caught on fire at the Poestlingberg Zoo in Linz, Austria . One species that couldn't make a quick getaway f...

Home to close to 30,000 pieces of historical wea...  ...historical weaponry, the Zeughaus Museum in Graz Austria represents the area's rich military heritage. The...

This Christmas, forget Santa. There's a mythical c...  ...e power to send Krampus back to hell,” says Austrian ethnologist Ulrike Kammerhofer-Aggermann. [...]Bu...  ...ing a mini-revival, mainly for the fun of it. The Austrian state of Salzburg alone has 180 Krampus clubs, mo...  ...up since 1990, says Jos...

Think of Krampus as the "anti-Santa", the demon wh...  ...ve of St. Nicholas Day in Europe, particularly in Austria . The Krampus tradition, whilst once done with a...