Kutná Hora

The town of Kutná Hora , an hour east of Prague, has become synonomous with bones, not because of the huge sandstone cathedral or the history of silver mines, but because of a small ossuary on the other side of town. The ossuary is flanked by a city cemetary, and the story goes that when everyone started dying of the Bubonic Plague, the cemetary expanded tremendously. But there were too many bones, and during the town's reconstruction, a lot of them were dug up and placed inside the small chapel. Well, "placed" is not really the right verb. We'll say "stacked", "arranged" and/or "displayed." Huge pyramids of skulls, various Caldor-esque mobiles, and a proper chandelier (and let's not forget the recreation of one important familie's coat of arms) are all made out of bones in this dark basement. There are supposed to be 40,000 people stacked up in there. Tourists flock here by the thousands, and for the 50kc entrance fee, I suppose it's worth the look. Though you do leave feeling a little bizarre.