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The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A massive statue depicts Jesus as if he's about to take off in flight.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

Ancient catacombs form the foundation for this Rococo orgy of a church.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

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

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

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

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

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.