Habsburg, Switzerland
Schloss Habsburg (Habsburg Castle)
An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.
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Habsburg, Switzerland
An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.
Verzasca, Switzerland
This medieval footbridge in the Swiss Alps is known to attract cliff-jumping daredevils.
Lucerne, Switzerland
This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.
Gränichen, Switzerland
The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.
Sissach, Switzerland
Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
Venice, Italy
This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.
Venice, Italy
Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.
Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.
Houyet, Belgium
The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.
Bruges, Belgium
This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.
Bruges, Belgium
Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.
Bruges, Belgium
Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.
Bruges, Belgium
The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.
Ghent, Belgium
This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.
Ghent, Belgium
A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.
Bristol, England
A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.
Bristol, England
One of Bristol's best-hidden gems has ties to Lord Byron, whence it became the nation's first reformatory school for girls.
Kamakura, Japan
The alleged site of the months-long imprisonment of a Japanese prince.
Easton, Massachusetts
A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.