Hallstatt Bonehouse [Beinhaus], Austria

The small town of Hallstatt, Austria, precariously perching on the side of a mountain provides one of the most gorgeous scenic landscapes anywhere in the World. However, along with the strikingly picturesque view Hallstatt also offers an eerie Bone Chapel [Beinhaus] [Karner] originally built in the 12th century to accommodate for lack of cemetery space and the need to recycle graves by digging up the remains after twenty years and transferring them to the Bone House. The rows and rows of roughly 600 sculls are labeled with names and dates of birth and death and beautifully painted in different styles with ivy, roses, black crosses, flowers and even other things, such as serpents.

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