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.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

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

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

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

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

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