The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

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

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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 museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.