Places TheMacabreNBold Wants to Go

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

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

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

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

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

Jesus' footprints and the first catacombs in the world.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A Portuguese Jewish cemetery filled with stunning grave monuments that date back to 1614.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.