Does it ever end?!
We made yet another "top" list... this time Condé Nast Traveler's 10 Creepiest Catacombs You Can Actually Visit
Hmm, this is one I did not know about. Must visit when I have the time. I have been to the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutná Hora, but never to this one in Brno. Speaking of the ossuary, I must share my eerie photos with you.
But for now...
Brno, Czech Republic
Population: 50,000
The walls are literally made of bones in these
tunnels, situated beneath the millennia-old town of Brno. While doing a
pre-construction dig in 2001, archeologists discovered thousands of skeletal
remains in the area beneath the Church of St. Jacob. Back in the 17th and 18th
centuries, the bones were arranged in orderly stacks; but years of mud, water,
and neglect had knocked them into messy piles. What's a town to do? Clean and
reorganize all the remains, of course, then open the resulting charnel house to
the public. Skulls, femurs, and the like now fill walls, chambers, and pillars.
And they're multicolored, too: Reddish ones died of the plague, while yellowish
ones perished of cholera.
Tomas Hajek/Demotix/Corbis
