Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

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

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

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

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

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

Once a year in Pomuch, the dead are taken out for a cleaning.

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

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

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

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