One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

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

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

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

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Legend says a giant, venomous spider once dwelled within this Polish church.

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