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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!