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A shrine to Baron Kriminel
cemeteries

The Modern and Macabre Vodou of Haiti

Darmon Richter June 27, 2014
ossuaries

Brno is the New Sedlec: Europe's Most Macabre Destination Gets a Rival of 50,000 Skeletons

Elizabeth Harper June 24, 2014
skulls

On Holiday with the Dark Lord: The World's Most Metal Places

Allison Meier April 18, 2014
morbid monday

Four Practical Posthumous Uses for Human Bones

Dolly Stolze March 17, 2014
Voodoo free parking doll
Lome, Togo

Akodessewa Fetish Market

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
31 days of halloween

The Skull Tower of Serbia

Allison Meier October 5, 2013
skulls

How Did Bits of Percy Shelley's Skull End Up in the New York Public Library?

Bess Lovejoy July 8, 2013
John the Baptist relic
Rome, Italy

The Head of St. John the Baptist at San Silvestro in Capite

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.
Permanently Closed
Monselice, Italy

Church of San Giorgio

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.
Part of the collection at the Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology.
Prague, Czechia

Hrdlička Museum of Anthropology

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.
Phnom Sampeau Killing Cave
Krong Battambang, Cambodia

Killing Caves of Phnom Sampeau

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York

Goldbar

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.
Said to be Mozart's Skull
Salzburg, Austria

Mozart's Skull

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Phnom Penh Memorial Stupa

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Permanently Closed
Boston, Massachusetts

Warren Anatomical Museum

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Hamburg, Germany

Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Reliquary of St. Foy
Conques, France

St. Foy’s Golden Reliquary

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.
Niš, Serbia

The Skull Tower of Nis

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.