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This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

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

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

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.