Kassel, Germany
Museum of Sepulchral Culture
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.
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Kassel, Germany
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.
Thale, Germany
This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Blankenburg (Harz), Germany
A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.
Sasbachwalden, Germany
You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.
Hanover, Germany
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Oberhausen, Germany
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Frankfurt, Germany
The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.
Bonn, Germany
Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Metten, Germany
This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.
Duisburg, Germany
This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.
Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Oppenau, Germany
This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Munich, Germany
One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.