A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

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

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

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

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Before serving as James Bond's Casino Royale, this Victorian-era spa catered to the world's elite.

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

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

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.