Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

A Roman temple perched over an Italian town, forgotten several times over.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

A macabre anatomy museum tucked within an old Italian hospital.

One of the oldest and most significant collections of Ancient Egyptian archeology outside of Egypt.

Also known as the Temple of Poseidon, this is one of the best-preserved Greek temples in the world.

A medieval fresco which reminds visitors that death will come for us all.

Ancient cave tombs known as the "houses of fairies."

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

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

Largest necropolis in the Mediterranean.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An unusual "skull with ears" sits in the crypt of this small church tucked away at the end of a narrow alley.

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

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

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

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

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

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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