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A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Hungarian self-built castle.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

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

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

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

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

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

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

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

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

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

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.

Home of the first female Hungarian poet, where her secret writing lay hidden for over a century.

A memorial museum to the political prisoners who were held at Sighet Prison, once one of the most feared places in Romania.

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.

This hauntingly beautiful cemetery outside a medieval citadel is full of winding paths and ivy-covered graves.