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

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

An underground city of salt.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The painter of "The Scream" is laid to rest under a stoic bust of himself in the humble corner of an Oslo cemetery.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

The ancient remains of this natural fortress can still be found along the Silk Road looking surprisingly preserved.