During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

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

This ancient burial site was once thought to be the home of a race distinctive to Ainu folklore.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

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

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

This mysterious cross appeared on a farmer's lawn in 1972 and has been attracting pilgrims ever since.

Created by a pair of artists, this former hotel was designed to provide a minimum of everything including comfort.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.