New Haven, Connecticut
Crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
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Eggenburg, Austria
Eggenburg Charnel
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
St. Florian Ossuary
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Jersey
La Hougue Bie
A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave
Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.
Tambon Saen Suk, Thailand
The Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden
Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.
Brookfield, Massachusetts
Spooner Well
Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.
Providence, Rhode Island
H.P. Lovecraft’s Grave
Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
Bar-le-Duc, France
Transi de René de Chalon
Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.
Dargavs, Russia
Dargavs Village
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
Gommern, Germany
St. Nicholas Church
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Saint-Denis, France
Heart of the Dauphin
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Nazca, Peru
Chauchilla Cemetery
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Old Burial Ground
This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.
Amiens, France
Jules Verne's Tomb
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Tanis, Egypt
Tanis
The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.
Los Angeles, California
Los Feliz Murder Mansion
Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.
Mount Colah, Australia
Ancient Aboriginal Astronomy
An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.
Darwin, Australia
Cage of Death
Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.
Arumpo, Australia
Mungo National Park
Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.
Mount Surprise, Australia
Undara Lava Tubes
White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.
Nara, Japan
Buddha's Nostril
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
Cherry Springs State Park
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
The Caves, Australia
Capricorn Caves
A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.
