The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

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

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

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

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.