Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Medieval Crime Museum
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Hamburg, Germany
A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Munich, Germany
Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.
Nuremberg, Germany
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Templin, Germany
The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.
Cologne, Germany
Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.
Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.
Hanover, Germany
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Munich, Germany
Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Sankt Andreasberg, Germany
Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Kassel, Germany
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.