Catacombs and Crypts

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.

A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.