And their jaws fell open... literally!!!

We decided to venture out of Prague today with Jeff and Andrea. There is a town an hour or so away called Kutna Hora. There are the traditional cathedrals, churches, fountains, museums, etc. etc. But then, there is the most unusual site I have ever come across. The town has a small chapel on the grounds of a cemetary. Not so unusual until you consider the decoration of choice: human bones! The chandeliers are made solely from skulls, pelvic bones, spines, femurs, tebulas, you get the point. The arches in the ceiling and candelabras??? Bones. In the late 1800s the cemetary was overflowing and then the plague hit. What to do with all the excess bones? Decorate the chapel! What an excellent use of resources! The eery thing to think about was that all of these skulls used to be living, walking, breathing humans; someone's father or mother. Now they are a part of a candlestick and we're taking pictures of them. What can we say? We're tourists, and we like it!