Prague, Czechia
Old Jewish Cemetery
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
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Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
Prague, Czechia
Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
Prague, Czechia
The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Berlin, Germany
The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.
Augsburg, Germany
Deep in the forest next to Augsburg are abandoned bunkers and bullet traps from the region's military past.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Oranienburg, Germany
A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.
Neustadt, Germany
The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.
Flintsbach am Inn, Germany
A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Binz, Germany
Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.
Rangsdorf, Germany
The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
Bad Schussenried, Germany
This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.