Skulls

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.