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Ypres, Belgium
Menin Gate Memorial
A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.
Aurangabad, India
Bibi Ka Maqbara
Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.
Lisbon, Portugal
Carmo Convent Ruins
Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.
Évora, Portugal
Portugal’s Chapel of Bones
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Field, British Columbia
Yoho National Park
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Tomb of Rufina Cambacérès
A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…
Vienna, Austria
Stephansdom Crypt
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Museum of the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The place where World War I began.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Showmen's Rest
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Caracas, Venezuela
Dr. Gottfried Knoche and his mummies
Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.
Bingen, Germany
Mouse Tower
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
Pomuch, Mexico
Pomuch Cemetery
Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.
Kampala, Uganda
Kasubi Tombs Ruins
The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.
Kyiv, Ukraine
Kyiv Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Turin, Italy
Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology
The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cementerio de la Recoleta
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
Dublin, Ireland
St. Michan's Mummies
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Douaumont Ossuary
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
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