Salzburg, Austria
Mozart's Skull
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.
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Salzburg, Austria
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.
Bolzano, Italy
The first passenger cable car in the world.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.
Bingen, Germany
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
Munich, Germany
King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.
Wiesbaden, Germany
The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Veitshöchheim, Germany
This tiny German village has staked claim to being the center of the union following Brexit.
Solothurn, Switzerland
Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.
Darmstadt, Germany
The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.
Sulzbach, Germany
Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Lautertal (Odenwald), Germany
This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.
Heidelberg, Germany
A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.
Heidelberg, Germany
A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.
Sinsheim, Germany
It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.
Hinterweidenthal, Germany
It's said the devil used this mushroom rock as a table for a late-night meal.
Schwyz, Switzerland
The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.
Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
A 13th-century Swiss castle houses a collection of artifacts from the Polish diaspora.
Kaltbach, Switzerland
A 22-million-year-old sandstone cave is a natural habitat for award-winning cheese.
Langenenslingen, Germany
The former home of Ernst Jünger, an eccentric German novelist, philosopher, entomologist, and psychonaut.
Stuttgart, Germany
Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.