This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

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

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

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.