computer architecture made from human boneis witness throughout the world — often , but not always , constructed by church building authorities advance us to reflect on our deadly fate , and to behave accordingly . One of the most famous such sites is theSedlec ossuary , about a half - hour outside Prague , which owes its fantastic os creations to a handful of grease .
While the specifics have been lose to clock time , caption has it that during the thirteenth one C , a local abbot go to the Holy Land and brought back a palmful or two of soil from Golgotha , the site of Jesus ’ excruciation . The abbot stick it in the cemetery of what ’s now theChurch of All Saints in Sedlec , quick making the necropolis the most desirable patch to be forget for miles around . After a few terrible plague epidemics and the Hussite wars , the solid ground was much overflowing with body , and the ossuary ( a storehouse for pearl ) was reconstruct to hold up some of the extra skeletons from the necropolis .
In the fifteenth 100 , a half - blind monastic may have started order some of the ossuary ’s many bones into artistic gathering ( supposedly , he regain his sight in the process ) , but the veridical highlights of the place were created by a talented Czech carpenter named František Rint in the 1870s . Today , tourists love to gape at the coat of arm created for a local noble family out of the finger cymbals , and the chandelier said to contain at least one of every bone in the human body .
As Dylan Thuras billet in thevideo for Atlas Obscura above , the ossuary is currently being animate — a difficult task since no one ’s really indisputable how the os construction are being held together .
The video delves a short deeper into the history of the site , shows off some of its wonder , and at the destruction recommends some less - visit ossuaries — for those who care their vacation goal both spooky andveryobscure .
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