Naters, Switzerland
Naters Beinhaus
This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.
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Naters, Switzerland
This ossuary is more than five centuries old and is heralded as one of the finest in Switzerland.
Novara, Italy
This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Solferino, Italy
The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Chios, Greece
This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.
Qesm Saint Katrin, Egypt
Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Quito, Ecuador
This overlooked, beautiful convent hides an original Hieronymus Bosch among its many treasures.
Pomuch, Mexico
Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Porto, Portugal
Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
Madrid, Spain
Remains of the lost church hide beneath this Spanish Parliament building.
Lanrivain, France
One of the last Breton ossuaries still preserving the bones of the dead.
Saint-Pol-de-Léon, France
Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.
London, England
This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.