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

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.