A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

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

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.