The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

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

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

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

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

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

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

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

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.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

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

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