Hungary

A seven-tower Neo-Romanesque viewing terrace on the Buda Castle hill, built between 1895 and 1902 by Frigyes Schulek, offering panoramic views over the Danube and Pest.

Hungary's largest national park, preserving the Puszta — the flat, grassy steppe of the Great Hungarian Plain — together with alkaline lakes, marshes and a herd of grey cattle, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

The Hungarian Parliament Building on the Danube is the world's largest Gothic Revival parliament structure, begun in 1885 and completed in 1904, housing the Holy Crown of St. Stephen.

The world's second-largest thermal lake, fed by a underground spring at Hévíz in western Hungary, with water rich in calcium, magnesium and sulphur compounds at a temperature that permits year-round bathing.

Hungary's oldest still-functioning monastic community, founded in 996 on a hill near Győr; home to a library of some 300,000 volumes including 1,500 medieval manuscripts, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Hungary's most famous historic wine region, straddling the Zemplén hills in the northeast, where the volcanic soil and the confluence of the Tisza and Bodrog rivers create ideal conditions for botrytised aszú wine; a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape.