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

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

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

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

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

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.