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Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The only thing still moving in this town is the eponymous hot spring.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

The only brothel on the National Register of Historic Places.

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Visit a remnant California's Gold Rush, which locals claim is haunted by spirits from the past.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.