London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
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London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Tokyo, Japan
A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.
Griswold, Connecticut
The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.
Salzburg, Austria
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.
Agion Oros, Greece
The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.
Paris, France
Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.
Hagley, England
An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.
Rome, Italy
Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.
Saint-Denis, France
The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Højbjerg, Denmark
Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.
Amiens, France
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Nazca, Peru
Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Rome, Italy
At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.
Lisbon, Portugal
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Leuk, Switzerland
For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.