Places juliex Wants to Go

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

The remains of an ancient medieval monastery can be seen in the basement of a luxury hotel

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

The bronze creation commemorates the life and work of a beloved actor.

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

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

A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

This statue honors one of Budapest's most beloved literary characters.

A giant glider—designed by the father of the Rubik's Cube's designer—now soars within a shopping mall.

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

This memorial to a murdered empress took 20 years to design, then spent 30 years hidden away in storage.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

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

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

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

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

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