Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

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

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

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.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

One of the world's oldest working clocks is curiously missing the Zodiac sign of Libra.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The plague quarantine island home to the alleged "Vampire of Venice."

Whether hero or rogue, his silver bullet is said to have taken down the murderous "Beast of Gevaudan."

Venice's "Island of the Mad."