Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

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

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

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

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

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

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

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

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.