This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The world's biggest pet store.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

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

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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