A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This castle played host to the largest great hall found in medieval Central Europe.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.