A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

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

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

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.