Catacombs and Crypts

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

To fit bodies into this Renaissance crypt, they were first left to decompose in the crypt's rotting room.

The “Sistine Chapel” of the Middle Ages merges 11th-century science and religion in wondrous hues.

A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.

This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.