Kantuot, Cambodia
Preah Vihear Temple
This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.
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Kantuot, Cambodia
This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.
Prasat Sambour, Cambodia
More than 100 Hindu temples are slowly being swallowed by the forest.
Krong Battambang, Cambodia
A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Krong Battambang, Cambodia
Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
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.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
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.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
Phumi Khna Rôngvoas, Cambodia
This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.