This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

The middle finger of modernity.

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

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

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

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

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

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

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.