Paris, France
Museum of Vampires
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
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Paris, France
The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.
Berlin, Germany
The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.
Kasendorf, Germany
For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.
Eisenach, Germany
The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.
Essen, Germany
The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Büsingen am Hochrhein, Germany
A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.
Mindelheim, Germany
Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.
Böblingen, Germany
Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Waldeck, Germany
A century-long search for a church that was never there.
Lich, Germany
A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.
Rott am Inn, Germany
These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.
Berlin, Germany
The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.
Augsburg, Germany
This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Waidhofen, Germany
A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.
Bingen, Germany
The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.
Edertal, Germany
Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.