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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

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.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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