Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

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

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.