A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

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

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

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

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

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

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

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

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.