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

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

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

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

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

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

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

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

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.