Places Fogarty Wants to Go

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

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

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

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

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

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.