Bone Church

Yesterday, the whole CIEE program visited Kutna Hora, a small historic silver mining town turned into a tourist trap. But actually it was a nice little place, the best part being the bone church.

It's a Catholic church built in the 1400s with interior crypts and decorations made out of human skulls and bones. There are a lot of skull-and-crossbones, inculding a bone-coat of arms and a bone-chandelier. It contains the bones of over 400,000 people. Whoa. The pungent stench of death practically filled the room.

Apparently, this is just one of a few churches that had this conceit. There are a lot of them in England, I'm told. Really, it was probably the coolest place ever.