The coffin-shaped church was once home to monks who slept in coffins.

In the U.K., a historic workhouse shines a light on the early, harsh treatment of the poor.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

Hundreds of boat-shaped headstones fill this graveyard as part of a centuries-old custom with mysterious origins.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Ancient stone graves shaped like ships provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the afterlife.

A winding medieval path was used by mourners to carry their dead to the nearest church.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

A field filled with carved medieval tombstones called stećak.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

This surreal memorial/cemetery is a necropolis of crumbling stonework and puzzle-shaped headstones.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.