Places nocturnalhecate Wants to Go

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

One of the last Breton ossuaries still preserving the bones of the dead.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

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

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient Roman religious cult contains an exquisite traditional fresco.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

The leathery remains of a woman who died in the 13th century now lie in a church named for her.