Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

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

The great Danube river starts here.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

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

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

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

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

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

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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

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