The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A set of medieval stained-glass windows tell the gruesome story of a Viking siege.

An impressive armored bronze effigy marks the tomb of one of the medieval era's greatest warriors.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

One of England's most famous churches hides a pair of little known architectural treasures.

A wonderfully eccentric Victorian-era museum and library.

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.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

The great Danube river starts here.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

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

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.