Paris, France
Catacombes de Paris
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
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Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Brussels, Belgium
This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.
Cheddar, England
Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.
Rothwell, England
Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.
London, England
Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.
London, England
This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
London, England
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
London, England
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.
London, England
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.
London, England
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.
London, England
This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.
Asnières-sur-Seine, France
The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.
Birmingham, England
A hidden gem in the middle of the city's infamous Jewelry Quarter.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Lastingham, England
Thought to be the oldest Norman crypt in the world.
Redcar and Cleveland, England
A seaside morgue for the victims of the North Sea.
Scarborough, England
These erosion formations on the wave cut platform have a natural explanation