The Bone Church

This church is amazing. Spectacularly bizarre but fascinating. It has 2 stories, the bottom story is where the bones are, the top story is the church bit.

The Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church) is a Gothic chapel containing the skeleton fragments of 40,000 to 70,000 people artistically arranged as interior decor.
Holy Ground: A 13th-century monk scattered soil from Jerusalem over the cemetery, creating a highly coveted burial site.
Mass Graves: The Black Death and Hussite Wars overwhelmed the cemetery, forcing the exhumation of thousands of skeletons into a chapel crypt.
Artistic Creation: In 1870, the Schwarzenberg family hired woodcarver František Rint to organize the piles. He bleached the bones and built the structures.
Famous Features: The chapel features a giant chandelier containing every bone in the human body, a bone-sculpted noble coat of arms, and skull garlands.
Visitor Rule: Photography is banned inside to maintain respect for the deceased.Read more