This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

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

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

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

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

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

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

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

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.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.