This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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

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

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.