Athens, Greece
Wax Museum of Andreas Syggros
A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
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Athens, Greece
A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.
Athens, Greece
The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.
New York, New York
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
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.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
London, England
This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.