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

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

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

These 17th-century mummies are no longer naturally preserved, but remain on display today.

This Italian pyramid is said to hold the mingled remains of the dead from both sides of the Battle of Novara.

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

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

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

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

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

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

The personal charnel house of Anton Bruckner.

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

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

Mysterious painted skulls in Moravia.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

One of the largest ossuaries in Spain is packed from floor to ceiling with bones.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.