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

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

High in the clouds of San Marino sits an ancient tower with some curious prisoner graffiti.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

A memorial to the beloved brown bear that served in the Polish army during World War II.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.

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

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

Venice's island of the dead.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.