Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This mysterious pig iron pillar does not rust, despite being weathered by the elements for centuries.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

Nestled within a German forest is an intriguing, growing rock.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.