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

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

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

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

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

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

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

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.