The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic looks very normal on the outside:
![Zp / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/27.jpg)
But at the entrance, you can already tell there’s something different about this chapel:
![Strider gts / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/35.jpg)
Once inside, there are skulls and other bones everywhere:
![Pudelek (Marcin Szala) / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/110.jpg)
Here’s a closer look at the chandelier made of bones:
![Chmouel / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/71-768x1024.jpg)
This is a coat of arms made of bones in the chapel:
![word_virus / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/45-679x1024.jpg)
And here’s a place where people leave offerings:
![misha / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/54.jpg)
There are many other similar chapels throughout Europe.
This is the entrance to the Capela dos Ossos in Évora, Portugal. It already gives you a sense of foreboding…
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/112.jpg)
Above the door, it says: “We bones, are here, waiting for yours.”
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/28.jpg)
Inside the chapel (the walls are covered in bones):
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/36.jpg)
This is an ossuary, or a box for bones, which seems a bit strange given how they’ve chosen to decorate…
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/46.jpg)
Yes, that’s a skeleton hanging from a rope:
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/55.jpg)
This is the exterior of St. Bartholomew’s Church in Czermna, Poland. Again, it looks very normal on the outside.
![Ondřej Žváček / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/114.jpg)
But the inside is just full of bones:
![Merlin / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/29.jpg)
A closer look at the ceiling:
![Merlin / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/37.jpg)
They even have bones under the floor!
![Merlin / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/47.jpg)
Here’s the altar:
![Merlin / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/56.jpg)
An angel amidst the bones:
![Merlin / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/64.jpg)
Finally, here’s a quick look at a few other “bone churches”…
Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins in Rome, Italy:
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/72.jpg)
The Basilica of St. Ursula in Cologne, Germany (the mosaic on the wall is made of bones):
![Hans Peter Schaefer / Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/82.jpg)
San Bernardino alle Ossa in Milan, Italy (again, the wall is covered in bones):
![Wikimedia Commons](https://www.churchpop.com/content/images/wordpress/2014/10/92.jpg)