Rome, Italy
The Sweating Cenotaph at the Archbasilica San Giovanni in Laterano
Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
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Rome, Italy
Stone memorial that's said to predict the death of the pope and the site of the Cadaver Synod.
Rome, Italy
One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.
Praid, Romania
Gigantic Romanian salt mines used to heal respiratory conditions.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Bochnia, Poland
Poland's oldest salt mine has nearly everything one needs to live underground forever.
Qeshm, Iran
One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.
Zanjān, Iran
Salt cured mummies continue to turn up in this Iranian mine.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Naples, Italy
Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Cairo, Egypt
A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.
Pavia, Italy
A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...
Cagliari, Italy
A collection of wax anatomy by the great sculptor Clemente Susini.
Pisa, Italy
Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.
Bologna, Italy
An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.
Brooklyn, New York
A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Bologna, Italy
An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.
Florence, Italy
The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
Mount Dandenong, Australia
A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.