Catacombs and Crypts

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

The first pet cemetery in the United States.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.