This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

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

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

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

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

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

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.