This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

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

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

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

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

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

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

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

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

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

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 largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

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