These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

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

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

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

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

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

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

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

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

The history of funerals and funerary customs.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?