This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

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

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.