Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.