Museums — Budapest

A former Arrow Cross and secret-police headquarters turned unflinching museum of fascist and communist-era torture, deportation and show trials.

A neoclassical museum spanning prehistory to the 20th century, founded on a count's donated library and famous as the steps where the 1848 revolution was sparked.

An open-air exile for roughly 40 monumental Lenin, Marx and Soviet-hero statues removed from Budapest's streets after 1989, arranged with deliberate irony on a former farm.

A fantastical patchwork castle in City Park stitching together replicas of 20 Hungarian landmark buildings, built for the 1896 millennial exhibition and later rebuilt to last.