It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

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

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The great Danube river starts here.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Berlin's old airport.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

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

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.