Somewhere in the Czech countryside, tens of thousands of guests never left, and someone decided to redecorate with them.
The centerpiece of this Czech chapel is a chandelier made of something that includes at least one of every kind in the human body. What is it made of?
Human bones The Sedlec Ossuary, beneath a cemetery church near Kutná Hora, holds the skeletons of tens of thousands of people, many arranged into decorations and furniture.
A medieval abbot came home from the Holy Land with a souvenir he sprinkled over his monastery's graveyard. What did he bring back?
Dirt from Golgotha Word of the holy soil spread, and the Sedlec cemetery became one of the most desirable places to be buried in all of Central Europe.
Legend says the job of digging up skeletons and stacking the bones went to one monk with a surprising handicap. What was it?
He was half-blind As plague and war filled the cemetery, old graves were unearthed and their bones moved into the chapel below the new church.
The woodcarver hired to tidy the bone heaps left something personal on the wall by the entrance, also made of bone. What was it?
His signature František Rint was hired by the noble Schwarzenberg family, and he also built their coat of arms out of bone.
A filmmaker's short documentary of the chapel was banned by Communist authorities, so they swapped the original tour-guide soundtrack for what kind of music?
Jazz Jan Švankmajer's frantic film was restored after the Velvet Revolution, and today the ossuary draws over 200,000 visitors a year and shows up in movies, novels, and video games.
