Places hubris Wants to Go

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

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

This Czech military museum is home to pink tank that was once a symbol of art and political rebellion.

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

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.