A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A small town hallucinates en masse - Bad bread, or CIA science project?

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.