Hungarian self-built castle.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

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

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

A scene from one of Hungary's most famous novels.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

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

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

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

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

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

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

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.

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

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

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

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.