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

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

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

One of Vienna’s oldest (and perhaps most haunted) alleys, allegedly with a bloody past that gave it its name.

On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

These two 15th-century metal rods allowed people to check if they were swindled or not.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A triumphant marble and bronze fountain depicting a 15th-century Hungarian king and his hunting party.

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

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

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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