The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A statue in Budapest's Liberty Square honors the former U.S. president's efforts to end the Cold War.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

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

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

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

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

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

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

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.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.