This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.