Memento Mori in France

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.

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

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

Medieval Danse Macabre Fresco in Northern Brittany.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.