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The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic looks very normal on the outside: But at the entrance, you can already tell there’s something different about this chapel: Once inside, there are skulls and other bones everywhere: Here’s a closer look at the chandelier made of bones: This is

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Sedlec Ossuary, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. The ossuary chapel dates to around 1400, but the current arrangement of the bones was made in 1870 by František Rint, a woodcarver and, one imagines, a very strange man. For another cool ossuary see here.