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

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

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

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

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.

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

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

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.