Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
St. Florian Ossuary
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
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Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Křtiny, Czechia
Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
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.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Salzburg, Austria
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.
Hilversum, Netherlands
A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.
Haarlem, Netherlands
Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This impressive collection of rare books on ancient mysticism inspired author Dan Brown.