Places cyanidesiren Wants to Go

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

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.