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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

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 museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

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

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.