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

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

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

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.