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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.

A Hungarian optometrist's charming collection of Asian art and curiosities.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

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

A tribute to the builder(s) of Bitcoin.

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

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

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

Also known as Uncle Karl, the beloved bronze copper keeps a watchful eye on St. Stephen’s Basilica while people rub his lucky belly.

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

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

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

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

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

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