Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
St. Florian Ossuary
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
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Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
London, England
Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
Odesa, Ukraine
The largest catacomb system in the world.
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.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Boise, Idaho
Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.
Delaware City, Delaware
A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Rabat, Malta
Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Rome, Italy
Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Los Angeles, California
Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.
Brno, Czechia
A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.