Honduras
The Cave of the Glowing Skulls
These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.
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Honduras
These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Flintsbach am Inn, Germany
A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.
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.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
New York, New York
Relics given to a Manhattan church to avoid seizure by the Italian government.
New York, New York
Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.
New York, New York
The mummified relics of an American missionary.
Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Suakin, Sudan
Remains of an abandoned coral city.
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia
Home of the world's smallest dinosaur footprints.
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia
Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.
Murmansk, Russia
The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.