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At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

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

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This Queens hospital has stood abandoned for almost 20 years after its patients were secretly relocated in the dead of night.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.