Sedlec Ossuary

When I was younger I remember watching a BMX video that was shot in Europe and one apart always stuck out to me because the riders had visited a church where the inside was decorated with human bones. I had long since forgotten about it until this summer when i was looking for things to do around Prague, where i re-discovered this church called the Sedlec Ossuary. 

The story behind this church goes back to the Medieval Ages when Europe was ridden with plague and disease. During this time so many people were dying from unnatural causes that many places, such as Sedlec, CZ had run out of room in their graveyards and needed other places to leave the remains of the deceased. This is when they started placing the cleaned and bleached bones of dead, local residents as decoration. The bones of over 40,000 people lay on the inside of a chapel in the center of this town.

Just a handsome dog in the parking lot of a gas station on the way to Sedlec.