Amsterdam, Netherlands
Biblioteca Ets Haim
The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands
A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Glasgow, Scotland
A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.
Doorn, Netherlands
The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.
Leiden, Netherlands
This public library and its impressive collection of academic books have not changed since the 17th century.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Leggiuno, Italy
This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.
Les Trois-Moutiers, France
A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.
Klatovy, Czechia
These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Chios, Greece
This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.
Eugene, Oregon
A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”
Haverstraw, New York
This house was the subject of an Edward Hopper painting, which in turn helped inspire the design of the Bates house in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho.'
Verona, Italy
Not far from the more famous House of Juliet, visitors will find the supposed residence of her lover.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A line number in Amsterdam that will likely never be used again due to its tragic history.