Wednesday, February 01, 2006

2Spare - Top 10 Most Peculiar Places in the World: "A Christian Chapel decorated by the bones of 40,000 people

The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic.

The ossuary contains approximately 40,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel."

1 comment:

post festum said...

Last summer we were given a choice between spending a day at Sedlec or spending an afternoon at a salt mine/salt statuary near Krakow that Picasso supposedly called the 8th wonder of the natural world. We chose the salt mine.