A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

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

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

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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.

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

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

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

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

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.