Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

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

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

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

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

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.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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