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Visit Sedlec Ossuary

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Added: August 22, 2010
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Jocelyn Wong on Jun 27, 2011

what is it?

Mark McKenna on Jun 27, 2011

It's a church is the czech republic decorated with the bones of about 50,000 people.

Jocelyn Wong on Jun 27, 2011

ohmygod

Scot Hacker on Jun 27, 2011

There are actually many such Ossuaries in the world, mostly in Europe, and mostly very old. The Capella de los Osos in Lisbon Portugal is incredible - every time the cemetery fills up with the bones of monks and nuns, they dig up the oldest ones and make a larger chapel out of them!

Scot Hacker on Jun 27, 2011

A couple of videos here:

http://bucketlist.org/i/Hmv/

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