A memorial to 350 people burned at the stake for witchcraft.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

An abandoned nightclub has become a vibrant work of art.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

15,000 year old bison sculptures.

A precariously balanced goose-shaped boulder with a dark legend.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.