Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

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

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

On Gellért Hill, this statue depicts the tragic tale of lovers divided by the Danube.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

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

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

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

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

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

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

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

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

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

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.

The tomb of one of the greatest travelers in history.

This stucco building in North Africa was the first American-owned property on foreign soil.

Reaching this rock formation involves a hike through rocky rapids and springs where wild turtles reproduce.

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.