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

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

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

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.