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Daily Trivia

Where can you see the chandelier of bones?

on Dec 14, 2024

In a Czechoslovakian church there is a chandelier made of human bones. The ceiling is festooned with the remains of former worshipers. This most unusual chandelier is in the ossuary in Sedlec, in what used to be Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic.

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