Places MissLetour Wants to Go

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A relic of World War I that now exist as a piece of public art.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

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.

The Hungarian biochemist whose research helped develop mRNA-based vaccines for Covid-19.

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

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

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

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

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

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

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

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

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

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