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

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

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

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

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

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