Aquincum Roman Ruins
135 Szentendrei út, District III, Budapest, 1031, Hungary
Two thousand years before Budapest existed, the Romans built a city here and called it Aquincum.
Buda Castle
2 Szent György tér, District I, Budapest, 1014, Hungary
Buda Castle has been built, destroyed, rebuilt, burned, besieged, blown up, and rebuilt again so many times that the current structure is essentially a ghost of a ghost of a ghost.
Hospital in the Rock
4C Lovas út, District I, Budapest, 1012, Hungary
Beneath the Castle District, carved into the limestone caves of Castle Hill, lies a secret hospital that operated during two of the most dangerous moments of the twentieth century and was classified for decades afterward.
House of Terror
60 Andrássy út, District VI, Budapest, 1062, Hungary
The building at 60 Andrássy Avenue has been a place of terror under two different regimes, and now it is a museum about both.
Memento Park
Balatoni út, District XXII, Budapest, 1223, Hungary
When the Communist regime fell in 1989, Hungarian cities were left with a practical problem: what do you do with forty-two giant bronze and stone statues of Lenin, Marx, Engels, and assorted Communist heroes? Most Eastern European countries melted them down or smashed them.
Vajdahunyad Castle
Vajdahunyad sétány, 1146 Budapest
This castle is a fake, and it is one of the best fakes in Europe.
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