Places eharjes Wants to Go

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

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

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

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

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

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

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

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

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

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

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

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

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

The largest fountain in Bratislava.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

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

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.