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

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

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

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

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

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

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

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

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 museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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.

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

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

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

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.