Romania is home to five museums that are unlike anything you’re likely to encounter elsewhere in the world.
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Despite the construction of a dam that was both a remarkable feat of engineering and a tragedy for locals, Eselnita is a tranquil place to float by the country’s history.
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Vlad Dracula, a Wallachian prince who earned the post-mortem moniker “Ţepeş” (impaler) from his preferred form of execution, never lived in Transylvania’s vampiresque Bran Castle.
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The country's tourism profile has been slow to rise, but with the country’s incredibly diverse, rewarding and relatively affordable offerings, that is not likely to last.
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Between the Carpathian Mountains and the banks of the Dâmbovit, Bucharest was once a grand neo-classical city. Much damaged in WWII, it now combines a mismatch of architectural eras.
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