Things to do in Vienna, no research required

Vienna hands you three heavyweights and expects you to be impressed: the Schönbrunn Palace grounds, the fossil halls at the Museum of Natural History, and the old masters inside the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Fair enough, they’re the right three. The better story is what sits around them. Third Man Museum spends a few crowded rooms on Orson Welles and postwar Vienna and is far more interesting than its size suggests, and Bar Pani mixes the cocktails people cross the city for. The bar scene here is deeper than the imperial reputation lets on, mapped alongside a full run of restaurants and cafes, so evenings get the same attention as the sightseeing.