Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic
They say that
necessity is the mother of invention. So when you have the human remains
of over 40,000 people, what do you do with all that bone? After the
Abbot of Sedlec went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1278 and brought
back some dirt from Jesus’s burial site, legions of Catholics all
throughout Europe started demanding to be buried in the cemetery there.
Obviously, they didn’t have the space to deal with them all, so here’s
the scary part. In the 16th century, the church staff dug everybody up
and used their remains for
interior
decoration. The ossuary features a chandelier made from one of every
bone in the human body, garlands of skulls, and a replica of the
Schwarzenburg coat of arms made from bones.
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