Zentralfriedhof (Vienna Central Cemetery)

Opened in 1874 because Vienna's older inner-city cemeteries had run out of space, the Zentralfriedhof was laid out on a vast scale from the start — it now holds an estimated 3 million graves, more than Vienna's living population, spread across 2.5 square kilometres of parkland, avenues and monuments. Its scale and green, tree-lined design put it in the same tradition as Paris's Père Lachaise, a cemetery built to be walked through, not just visited for a single grave.

Its most-visited section clusters Vienna's great composers together: Beethoven and Schubert lie close to each other, Brahms and both Johann Strauss father and son nearby, plus a memorial to Mozart (whose actual grave, in a pauper's plot at St. Marx Cemetery, was lost). The domed, gold-mosaic Karl Borromäus Church — also known as the Karl Lueger Memorial Church after the controversial former mayor entombed in its crypt — anchors the cemetery's main gate 2 entrance and is itself a significant piece of early 20th-century Jugendstil architecture.