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Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.