Places Bathynomus Wants to Go

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Monsters and miniatures are held in equal esteem at this wondrous museum.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.