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Memento Mori

Cimitero Monumentale di Staglieno

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

London, England

Kensal Green Cemetery and Catacombs

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

Charleston, Illinois

Airtight Bridge

The legacy of an unsolved, gruesome murder rests beneath the spans of this historic bridge.

San Francisco, California

San Francisco Columbarium

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

Transi de René de Chalon

Bar-le-Duc, France

Transi de René de Chalon

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

Sati Handprints

Sati Handprints

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

Hallstatt Charnel House

Hallstatt, Austria

Hallstatt Charnel House

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

The mural as seen from the nave

Chaldon, England

Ladder of Salvation of the Human Soul

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

Liverpool, England

William MacKenzie's Tomb

Pyramid shaped monument with a tall tale attached.

East Sussex, England

Beachy Head

England's most notorious suicide spot.

death - the great leveller

Dance of Death at Chapelle Kermaria an Iskuit

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

Isola di San Michele

Venice's island of the dead.

Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch House of Salem

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Salzburg, Austria

St. Sebastian’s Cemetery

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Catacombes de Paris

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Independence, Missouri

Leila's Hair Museum

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.