Buying an antique to take home is also popular amongst visitors to Vienna. A rummage around the flea and antiques markets can unearth all sorts of rarities.

The flea market at Vienna's Naschmarkt is already an institution. About 400 sellers present their goods here every Saturday from 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Private individuals are just as likely to have a market stall here as professional dealers of old items. The offering is correspondingly wide. In addition to high-value antiques, there are also lots curious, kitsch and humorous items to be found here. A must for bargain-hunters and flea market specialists.

For over 20 years, high-quality items from across many centuries have been available to buy at the Art and Antiques Market Am Hof. The offer ranges from oil paintings, antique picture frames, books, manuscripts and coins to porcelain vessels as well as wooden and tin toys from times long past. The market is open from March to November, every Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Around 110 exhibitors are represented at the Time Travel Antiques Market. Antiques of all kinds can be found here: books and graphics, postcards, objets d'art, shellacs and vinyl records, uniforms, antique embroideries, carpets, antique jewelry, old advertising signs, antique fittings and small pieces of furniture. The Time Travel Antiques Market is held every second and fourth Sunday in the month at the Ringstraßen Galerienand every first and third Sunday in the month at theEkazent Hietzing (8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.).

If you prefer to hunt for handicrafts, the little market in the 7th district is the place to go. At the Handicraft Market on Spittelberg, 15 artists sell self-made jewelry, ceramics, toys, wooden decorations, glassware and much more. A jury selects the exhibitors and guarantees a high level of the works on offer. The Handicraft Market on Spittelberg is held from May to October on the first weekend of the month on Spittel berggasse (Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.).