Places butterflywings Wants to Go

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

A towering sword embedded in the ground commemorates the legendary Slavic ruler.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

The massive white mound and accompanying water terraces are a striking geological oddity.

See more than 150 sculptures, stained glass windows, and famous works of art all rendered in marzipan.

An exploration of a small ethnic group’s heritage through their exquisite folk art.

The ruins of an early 1900s neo-Baroque mansion sit nestled in a local park in the Hungarian plains.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

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

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

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

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.