Of course Salvador Dalí lived in a castle...

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

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

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

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

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

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Rare and wonderfully wormy cadaver art captured in brass for centuries.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

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

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

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

An underwater city for the dead.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

This beautiful 16th-century necropolis marks an astonishing feat in heritage conservation.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.