Tom's Travels: Sedlec Ossuary - Kutna Hora, Czech Republic

[kbroskt]

was hevy.. nice work 

[kevlotec1]

!!recycling at its best!!

[SanVlados]

Жутко

[SanVlados]

Жудко

[bayuawanbiru]

if those skeletons can speak...they would have said "u fuckers think we are all sea shells?"

[TheMasterAbdul]

How amazing?? I mean how this could be amazing, its amazing that it still there, but I would be soooo creeped out, and will live in a cemetary if I went there, forever

[RbkCiRuela]

you are an ass dude, thats all...

this is a christian chapel...

duh! haha

[megapraimturvo]

incredible!!!

[VolkgartenBySquirrel]

Wikipedia - A king had brought back soil from the Crusades, and sprinkled the grounds of the monastery. It became THE place to get buried, and the monks soon ran out of room. Old bones were dug up and placed, stacked, then piled in the callar(s). A cabinet maker was given the herculean task of arranging the bones in a respectful manner. Using the mortal dust of centuries as understructure, he paid honor enough to intelligent design, the church, the ruling family, himself, and variant evolution.

[Gmackematix]

It's probably just as well I didn't make this video. The background music would have been "Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones".

[x6METAL6HEAD6x]

d00d! that is craaazzy! but its sweet 40,000 dead people's bones probably the most metal church everrr!! x]

[carazide]

Indeed!

[54spiritedwill54]

Absolutely beautiful!

[alexsimon85]

This is a trully unique place. I never witnessed such an intriguing place. I didn't believe there is something like this but in fact it is.

There is even a site dedicated to it sedlecossuary . com .

I need to visit it, and since I live close enough to the chapel, I might visit it this year.

[caesarshogun]

Amazing. Simply amazing.

[CptMorganTheBum]

so 40,000 sets of bones. what to do with them..

[eldrindgo]

its an art.. it isn't a disrespect to the dead..

[powerdon215]

You white folks are fucking crazy!!!!

[Ghostfreak34]

Nice...totaly suscribe the mortality of human

[LibbyWriggit]

Been there.

Absolutely Wonderful.

There was originally 6 bells but the other 2 were destroyed.

I strongly recommend this.

[gr00ve9]

what was the music in the background?

[orangenurse]

amazingly gross...i am still trying to understand why the bones are in a church..just curious...

[cristyyrom]

they didn't had enough space in the cemetery so they exhumed a part of the dead to make some room

[ghostrj]

Plague.. either way, the bodies had to be burned, and just dumping them would be a total indignity

[Shipgate]

Catholics are just morbid that way.

[NoctisEreptor]

@orangenurse Well either throw the bodies in a big pit like we did and hope it never happens again (which it did!) or create a warning to future generations to be clean and nice to each other!

[Ichtiostega]

i'd like to have something like that in my living room :D

[blasiyh]

ahhhh

[MajorHotlips]

Absolutely macabre. A monument to human mortality.

[Loafy1212]

Absolutely beautiful!

[walatalalaw]

they got them from their own cemetery, when there was the black plaig. they had to take out some bodies from the ground to burry other people, so they used trhe bones to create the ossuary. (long live wikipedia :D)

[TheNewNikoSoprano]

I wonder where they got them all from

[kathakano360]

The black death gave them a constant supply of materials.