The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

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

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

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

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

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

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

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.