Melnik, Czechia
Melník Chapel of Bones
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
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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.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
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."
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Bognor Regis, England
Poet William Blake penned some of his most famous work during his brief stay at this beloved country cottage.
London, England
This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Görlitz, Germany
After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.
Neißeaue, Germany
A massive playground in the woods of Germany.
Vik, Iceland
A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.
Magdeburg, Germany
A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.
Magdeburg, Germany
This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.
Michamvi, Tanzania
Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Yrdyk, Kyrgyzstan
On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.
Kyrgyzstan
A stunning blue-green lake located in the Terskey Alatau mountain range.
Barskoon, Kyrgyzstan
A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.
Kyrgyzstan
This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.
At-Bashi District, Kyrgyzstan
Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.
Osh, Kyrgyzstan
An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.
Toguz Toro, Kyrgyzstan
These oldest of these "embroidered stones" were carved 4,000 years ago in a high mountain valley.