Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

This mysterious and unique painting is filled with symbolism.

This macabre painting of a Shakespearean scene looks like something out of a nightmare.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

An extraordinary collection of scientific instruments - and Einstein's chalkboard - inside the world's oldest purpose built museum building.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

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

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.