Kutna Hora, Czechia
Sedlec Ossuary ‘Bone Church’
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
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Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
London, England
A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.
London, England
Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.
London, England
This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.
London, England
A Victorian park cemetery, standing on the site of what was once the Great North Wood.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
London, England
A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.
London, England
A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.
London, England
Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.
London, England
A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."
London, England
The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.
London, England
The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.
London, England
Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Naples, Italy
An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.
Rome, Italy
Roman-era ships unearthed...
Rome, Italy
The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.
Rome, Italy
The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.
Vatican City
Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.
New York, New York
Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.
New York, New York
A dark, dank room in subterranean Manhattan was the site of a ghastly murder.