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.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

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

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The world's oldest operational public pier railway has shuttled seagoing commuters from ship to shore since 1909.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

It's believed King John of England stayed at this 13th-century castle before riding off to sign the Magna Carta.

This plaque remembers a grave mistake that led to one local woman being buried alive.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

Luxurious hotel designed to stir the imagination of its many visitors.

One of the oldest trees in Britain may have been witness to some of the country's formative moments.

A museum based on the collection of a Victorian family. Housed in a remaining Victorian villa.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

This Gothic castle-like portal is a testament to the amazing craftsmanship of the navvies who built the railway tunnel.

Once a farm where patients tilled the soil, this asylum lost its workforce when overmedicating became common practice.