Places Rachaelannmare Wants to Go

A controversial “crumpet”-shaped museum tries its best to blend in with surrounding parkland.

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

This tomb of a Sufi mystic is a remnant of Ottoman rule in Hungary.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

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

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

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

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

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

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

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