Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

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

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

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

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.