Skeletons

The enigmatic skull gazes out over the ruins of a once-great Mayan city.

Only a fragment of this 15th-century Dance of Death survives today.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Hidden in the highlands of Guatemala, a small shrine venerates a forbidden folk saint.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

A beautiful old horse stable hosts one of the largest collections of domestic animal skeletons and taxidermy.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.