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

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.

The leathery remains of a woman who died in the 13th century now lie in a church named for her.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead still cares for the skulls at this mini-Fontanelle.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

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

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.