At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

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

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

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

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

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.