Daily Dose of Death

The Chapel Built of Bones: Inside the Sedlec Ossuary of Kutná Hora

In a suburb called Sedlec, on the western edge of Kutná Hora, a modest Gothic church gives no...

The road bends around lodgepole pines and suddenly there it is — four stories of white Georgian...

The water taxi cuts its engine two hundred meters from the shore and the driver offers no...

The driveway up Waverly Hill is longer than you expect. Dense Louisville woodland climbs with you...

The kirkyard looks, at first, like any other historic Scottish churchyard — leaning headstones,...

The Thames curves south past the ancient walls of the Tower of London, and six ravens — legally...

The blue sandstone walls of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum rise four stories against the West...

There are staircases in the Winchester Mystery House that lead straight into the ceiling. There...

On the morning of June 10, 1912, Mary Peckham, who lived next door to the Moore family in...

The Myrtles Plantation rises above Bayou Sara in St. Francisville, Louisiana — a white-columned...