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Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

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

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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