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

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.