If there's one place in Bohol that has the perfect blend of religious significance and reality TV-worthy details, it would be the municipality of Dimiao.
Dimiao is famed for its cemetery, which the National Museum has declared a National Cultural Treasure. The cemetery is known as the Ermita Ruins.
Built in the early 1800s, the ruins include walls of tombs arranged like honeycombs—but they're all empty. The uniquely structured sepulchers are the only ones found in the Philippines.
According to the information on Dimiao website, the overall structure of the Ermita Ruins resembles that of the Paco Cemetery.
Historians have speculated that many of the area's residents died of an unknown epidemic before the cemetery was completed.
They theorize that the epidemic must have hit Dimiao hard, to the point where only a few members of the community were able to take care of the dead. This would explain why archeological teams have dug up some skeletons piled up in a mass grave, a patch of land at the very center of the empty honeycomb-shaped niches.