In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

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

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.