Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
Kaplica Czaszek (Chapel of Skulls)
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
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Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Leoben, Austria
Austria's 5-star prison.
Ober Neustift, Austria
A pyramid in Central Europe of unknown origin.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Zwentendorf, Austria
Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Los Angeles, California
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Los Angeles, California
Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Tirana, Albania
An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.
Kyiv, Ukraine
One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Brazil
An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.
Trinidad and Tobago
This giant Cold War satellite dish has become a symbol of Trinidad's need for sovereignty.
Gadmen, Switzerland
This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Vienna, Austria
Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.
Weinan, China
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.