Potsdam, Germany
Sanssouci Palace
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
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Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Potsdam, Germany
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Berlin, Germany
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.
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.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Leipzig, Germany
This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.
Halle (Saale), Germany
This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Berlin, Germany
A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Tübingen, Germany
The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.
Porto, Portugal
When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.
Aulendorf, Germany
Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Rome, Italy
A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.