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Bucharest, Romania
6 places worth your time in Bucharest, with what each is actually like and when to go.
The heaviest building in the world, built by Ceaușescu after demolishing a fifth of the old city.
Restored merchant streets, now the bar district, with the Stavropoleos monastery at its edge.
Three hundred relocated buildings from across Romania in a lakeside park.
Where Ceaușescu gave his last speech in 1989, with the balcony still visible.
A bookshop in a restored 19th-century building, all white spiral staircases.
One of Europe's largest thermal complexes, twenty minutes from the city.