The best MTB trails around Lake Tineretului

Ceacescu's megalomaniac building for which parts of the city had to make way.

Very, very well protected place. The security guards don't let anyone onto the premises to take photos.

Construction site of the new Metropolitan Orthodox Church under construction in Bucharest. It will be the largest and most majestic church in Romania. It should be completed by 2025.

Next to Costelărie, where you find the best ribs in the city.

A building with 12 floors, 270 m long and 245 m wide; 48 m visible above ground and 15 m below the surface. You will not often find a building even bigger than the Palace of Parliament in Bucharest. When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu ordered the construction of this extremely luxurious building, a large part of Bucharest's historic city center had to pay the price. An entire neighborhood, a stadium, churches, monasteries and synagogues were demolished to make room. When the building was built, the entire economy served only the palace. Everything was made 100% from materials that came from Romania. All marble production was intended for the palace and the tombstones for the dead had to be made from other materials, such as wood. Today the Romanian Parliament is housed in the palace, but even that is not big enough to fill it. Therefore, the building is regularly used for other purposes, such as a conference center. The west wing of the building houses the National Museum of Modern Art.

Nice museum with bierhaus included.

The construction of the Palace began in 1984 and initially should have been completed in only two years. The term was then extended until 1990, but even now it is not finalized. Only 400 rooms and two meeting rooms are finished and used, out of 1,100 rooms. The building has eight underground levels, the last one being a nuclear bunker, linked to the main state institutions by 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) of catacombs. Nicolae Ceaușescu feared nuclear war. The bunker is a room with 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) thick concrete walls and can not be penetrated by radiation. The shelter is composed of the main hall – headquarters that would have had telephone connections with all military units in Romania – and several residential apartments for state leadership, in the event of war.

The Palace of the Parliament is the seat of the Parliament of Romania, located atop Dealul Spirii in Bucharest, the national capital. The Palace has a height of 84 metres (276 ft), a floor area of 365,000 square metres (3,930,000 sq ft) and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic metres (90,000,000 cu ft). The Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world, weighing about 4,098,500,000 kilograms (9.0356×109 lb). The building was designed and supervised by chief architect Anca Petrescu, with a team of approximately 700 architects, and constructed over a period of 13 years (1984–97) in Socialist realist and modernist Neoclassical architectural forms and styles, with socialist realism in mind. The Palace was ordered by Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), the president of Communist Romania and the second of two longtime heads of state in power in the country since World War II, during a period in which the personality cult of political worship and adoration was noticeably increased for him and his family. Known for its ornate interior composed of 23 sections, it houses the two houses of the Parliament of Romania: the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, along with three museums and an international conference center. The several museums hosted inside the Palace are the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Communist Totalitarianism (established in 2015) and the Museum of the Palace. Though originally named the House of the Republic when under its long period of construction, after the Romanian Revolution in December 1989 it became widely known as The People's House. Due to its impressive endowments, events organized by state institutions and international bodies such as conferences, symposia, and others take place there, but even so about 70% of the building still remains empty. As of 2008, the Palace of the Parliament is valued at €3 billion ($3.4 billion), making it also the most expensive administrative building in the world. The cost of heating and electric use and lighting alone exceeds $6 million per year, comparable to the total cost for powering a medium-sized city.