Vajdahunyad Castle

This guide to Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest starts in 1896, when architect Ignác Alpár stitched together replicas of twenty-one real Hungarian buildings into one fantasy castle for the Millennial Exhibition, a structure meant to last only a season. It follows the crowds who refused to let it go once the exhibition closed. Look for the cloaked, hooded figure seated quietly in the courtyard: Anonymus, the medieval monk who wrote Hungary's first history and never signed his real name.