Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

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

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

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

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

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

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.