The great Danube river starts here.

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.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Berlin's old airport.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.