Places thatdude Wants to Go

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

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

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

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

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

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

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

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.

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

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

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

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

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

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

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

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

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

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

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

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

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.