This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A plaque bearing the names of those who dedicated themselves to protecting Budapest's Jewish population during World War II.

A giant glider—designed by the father of the Rubik's Cube's designer—now soars within a shopping mall.

The holes in this wall provide a glimpse into Jewish life in Budapest, both past and present.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

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

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

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

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

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

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

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

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

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.

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

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

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