The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

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

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

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

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

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

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

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

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

An homage to the humble watering can.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

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

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.