The thigh bone's connected to the ...... collar bone...?
It is in this place! The 'bone church' as it is known is just outside a little town called Kutna Hora, about 40 miles west of Prague. The elaborate decorations inside the church consist of the bones of some 40,000 people. Yummy! Don't worry, they've all been disinfected and whitewashed! They were assembled very carefully into pyamids and chains - bit like Christmas decorations, in the 1870's. So where did these bones come from? Well, most were from the people buried here killed by the plague in 1318, and then the rest came from the Hussite wars in the 15th century. There wasn't enough room to bury everyone so this is the result! It was pretty spooky. *Mush
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