Places Ju An Wants to Go

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

An exploration of a small ethnic group’s heritage through their exquisite folk art.

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.

The remains of an entire Roman city can be explored in this interactive museum.

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

On a teardrop-shaped island in the Danube, the ruins of a convent and the final resting place of a saint.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

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

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

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

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

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Hike the unusual hoodoos and rock formations that form this little-known natural wonder.