The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

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 castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

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

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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

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

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

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

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.