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.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.
Thale, Germany
This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.
Blankenburg (Harz), Germany
A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
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.
Berlin, Germany
The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.
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.
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.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany
This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Munich, Germany
One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.
Lübben, Germany
Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.
Potsdam, Germany
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Dresden, Germany
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.
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.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.