Ossuaries

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

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

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

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

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

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.