An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.