Happy Halloween! Enjoy the costumes, candy, tricks, and treats!

... And some creepy/awesome photos!

National Geographic's Photo Gallery: From the Crypt

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_corpse-boots.html

"The 8,000 or so mummies in the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, are arranged in rooms according to their worldly status: man or woman; priest or professional; child or adult. There's even a chamber for virgins. The Italian government outlawed mummification at the site in 1881, but an exception was made in 1920 for two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, whose remarkably well-preserved body is nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty." "

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_capuchin-catacombs.html

"The skulls and bones of some 4,000 Capuchin monks, some of whom died nearly five centuries ago, adorn a six-room crypt beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione in Rome. More than a mere burial chamber, the friars have arranged the remains of their brethren into bizarre death art, including chandeliers, archways, and wall decorations."

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_rome-catacombs.html

"An elaborate homage to the dead-and a reminder of mortality to the living-adorns a crypt under Santa Maria della Concezione church in Rome. These macabre ornamentations, constructed from the bones of 4,000 deceased Capuchin friars, "make the people who stacked the bones in Paris's catacombs look like amateurs," according to one observer."

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_elaborate-crypt.html

"The Phoenicians are said to have regularly sacrificed children to appease the gods. These ritual killings and burials allegedly took place at stone sanctuaries called tophets, like this one discovered in the ruins of the colony of Carthage in Tunisia."

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_phoenician-tophet.html

"Neatly arranged bones sit within a crypt beneath a church in Rome. Burial chambers beneath the Eternal City house the remains of tens of thousands of deceased citizens. One 16th-century church, Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte, used its catacombs to provide proper burials for the poor, taking in some 8,000 bodies over a 300-year period."

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/crypt_crypt-bones.html