Douai, France
Les Fêtes de Gayant
This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.
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Douai, France
This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Pisa, Italy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
Montpellier, France
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Harmony, Maine
Working wool mill used as the exterior for the mill in the 1990 horror film "Graveyard Shift."
Washington, Connecticut
New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.
Gary, Indiana
This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Křtiny, Czechia
Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
Four antique Baldwin trains are kept on display in the Mal Tiempo train depot.