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Okay, the bones
The bones are all at an 'Ossuary' - a place for the dead. It's at Kutna Hora, about 70Km from Prague. Apparently, many rich people wanted to be buried there, and during the plague of the middle ages, many many people died. For some reason, initially a half-blind monk started making decorations with the bones of the dead there. In 1870 a Czech woodcarver (Frantisek Rint) completed the decorations in the church. Now the whole chapel is decorated with the bones of around 40,000 people.
You pay a small amount to enter, and a little extra to take photos. It's not a large chapel, but it's definitely worth looking at. It's also nice to look at some of the countryside of the Czech Republic to see what the rest of the country is like.
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