Outside of Prague, in the Czech Republic, is a small Roman
Catholic Church that looks normal on the outside but holds
40,000 to 70,000 skeletons on the inside. Officially called the
Sedlec Ossuary, it is often just referred to as Bone Church.
Around 1400, thousands of skeletons were dug up so that the
church could be built in the middle of the cemetery. The lower
chapel was to be an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during
construction. Around 1870, a wood carver was commissioned to
make order from all the bones. The dead were arranged in macabre
art to form four bell towers, a huge bone chandelier that
contains at least one of every bone in the human body, garlands
of skulls draping the vault, bones around the altar, a large
Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms, the signature of the artist Rint,
and many more bizarre artworks. The chapel, and underneath the
church and cemetery, are all decorated with bones. People who
died in war or a gruesome death which marred the bones were not
used too much for decoration. Ins