This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

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

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

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

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

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

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

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.