Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Jeweled Skeletons of the Fürstenfeld Abbey
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
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Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Waldsassen, Germany
Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.
Solferino, Italy
The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.
Naples, Italy
These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Vác, Hungary
Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
Salzburg, Austria
Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.
Milan, Italy
An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Montreal, Québec
One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.