December 23, 2010
Blog ArchivesCities of the Dead: 7 Sinister Ossuaries
Ossuaries are both fascinating and macabre places, but provide an economical solution to the problem of overcrowded churchyards. By categorising and stacking bones in a sort of grizzly storage system, countless human skeletons could be interred in a single tomb, bringing a whole new meaning to the term “bone structure”.
6 Overgrown Cemeteries, Tombs and Catacombs
We’ve all experienced those cliched opening scenes of horror films where the wind whistles through the trees of an overgrown cemetery. But some cemeteries are so eerie that it’s hard not to be taken in by the tangled grave stones fit for any Hammer Horror production and catacombs worthy of Indiana Jones.
Scariest Places on Earth: The Paris Catacombs
For urban explorers, few places are more coveted than the Catacombs of Paris. Long sealed off to the public, these harrowing subterranean chambers house an 18th century cemetery – essentially an anonymous mass grave. Beyond this, a labyrinth of tunnels extends for 280km beneath Paris in a network of disused stone mines and galleries.