Places ElSilencio Wants to Go

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

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