More Bones

Back in the mid '90s I was net-searching for weird places to visit in Europe when/if I finally made my much-anticipated trip. The trip never materialized, but I was reminded of one of the places I had intended to go when I looked at my 'CHUDs' entry earlier. It's the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora, Czechoslovakia. This place is a church decorated with the bones of vicitms of the black plague.


Yes, those are real human bones... this guy's site has a lot of cool pics from the Ossuary.

EDIT 2:02pm 9/9/2004--->
Here's a poem I wrote about this place a few years ago...

KOSTNICE Piled high in the middle of the church, they are a pale sconce. Having seen nothing for 800 hundred years, The hollowed eyes of these anonymous ancients, show no signs of their former fears. A work of art unparalleled by any mortis craftsman, giving glory to one whose coming was marked by a star... Magnificent, almost, until you realize what they are... WHO they are. High atop this gabled tribute to Zion, on the place of highest honor; on the spire where the cross should be, glares the empty gaze of poison... the 'Jolly Roger'. In the throes of death they gathered; came in droves to end their lives on Holy Ground. Now they sit, unburied, mouths wide, but making no sound.