Catacombs and Crypts

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

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

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.