The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Museum on earth sciences featuring a recreation of a famous curiosity cabinet.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.