Bomarzo, Italy
The Monsters of Bomarzo
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
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Bomarzo, Italy
A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Berlin, Germany
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Hartford, Connecticut
This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.
Kassel, Germany
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.
Hallstatt, Austria
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
London, England
This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.
Atlantic Ocean
Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This ancient Irish religious site is covered in ancient carvings, many of which have barely aged.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Naples, Italy
Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Dargavs, Russia
This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.
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.