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

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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