An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

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

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

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

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

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

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

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

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

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