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The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

A rare wooden coffin set vertically into the Gothic arch of an ruined church.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.