Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

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

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

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

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

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

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

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

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

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

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.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.