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

Where Nor'easters go to die.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

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

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

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

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.