Faro, Portugal
Capela de Ossos Bone Chapel
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
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Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
Rouen, France
An ancient ossuary in Rouen.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Křtiny, Czechia
Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.
Brno, Czechia
Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.
Lima, Peru
The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.
Marville, France
The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.
Wamba, Spain
One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
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.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Cham, Germany
In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.
Melnik, Czechia
Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.
Otranto, Italy
A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.
Putim, Czechia
The mystery of the Putim Ossuary involves a tricorn hat.
Rome, Italy
The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."
Niš, Serbia
Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Caynton, England
This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.
London, England
A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.