Oppenheim, Germany
Michaelskapelle Ossuary
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
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Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Berlin, Germany
A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Erfurt, Germany
This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.
Berlin, Germany
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
Ettal, Germany
A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Saalfeld, Germany
"The most colorful grottoes of the world.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.