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Photos: Creepy Crypts!
October 31, 2008 | National Geographic

Just in time for Halloween - here is a National Geographic slideshow of some creepy crypts from around the world. Some of the sites: Chile’s Atacama Desert; Palermo, Sicily; the Santa Maria della Concezione church in Rome; Carthage, Tunisia; Egypt’s Valley of the Kings; and Peru’s El Brujo temple.

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