Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Salt Mine
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
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Detroit, Michigan
Over a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enter.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Hallstatt, Austria
The world's oldest known salt mine.
Khewra, Pakistan
The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.
Wieliczka, Poland
An underground city of salt.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Qeshm, Iran
One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
Kerch, Ukraine
The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.
Newark, California
From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Paris, France
The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Klatovy, Czechia
These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.
Qesm Saint Katrin, Egypt
Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Gemeinde Sankt Florian, Austria
The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.
Palermo, Italy
Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.
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.
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.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
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.