Places hubris Wants to Go

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

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

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

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

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.