This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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