Death

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

A small village in India bears witness to the end of birds' lives every September.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.