Dohány Street Synagogue

Designed by Ludwig Förster and opened in 1859, it seats about 3,000 people, making it the largest synagogue in Europe; its Moorish Revival style, with two onion-domed towers, was meant to evoke Judaism's eastern roots. Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, was born in a house next door.

The grounds hold the Jewish Museum, a cemetery for victims of the 1944-45 ghetto and the Raoul Wallenberg garden, with Imre Varga's metal weeping willow: each leaf is engraved with the name of a Holocaust victim.