An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

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

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

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

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

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

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

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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