Cham, Germany
Chammünster Ossuary
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
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Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Berlin, Germany
Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.
Nuremberg, Germany
This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.
Munich, Germany
King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Oberweser, Germany
The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.
Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Oppenau, Germany
This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Hanover, Germany
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Sankt Andreasberg, Germany
Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."
Kassel, Germany
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.
Schleswig, Germany
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.