An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

The late, disgraced President's embalmed remains displayed for all to see… theoretically.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

Macabre symbols of death and mummies on display set the tone of this Italian purgatory church.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

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

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

A mummified Spanish monk found in the walls of an Ecuadorian church, alongside a mummified mouse.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

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

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

These magnificently sculpted tombs represent Spain's own legendary version of "Romeo and Juliet."

Walk on a glass floor suspended over ancient mummified remains.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

Tools, pottery, and mummies showcase the history of La Palma's native people.

Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.