Drifting around this morbid attraction in Mexico is, quite literally, a chance to stare death in the face.
These shrouded mummies are far from macabre displays, however – they are real people who died 200 years ago before being brought up from the ground.
When hundreds of people in the Mexican town of Guanajuato fell victim to a cholera outbreak in 1833, bereaved families were forced to bury their loved ones immediately to prevent the spread of disease.
