How many human bones does it take to build a chandelier?

On Friday the 20th, NYU sponsored a trip to Kutna Hora, a smaller town in the Czech Republic. The main attraction is a church decorated with bones on the inside. We also visited a cathedral, did a tour of a place where they made money way back in the day, had lunch (which included gingerbread dumplings-yum), and finally got to the ossuary.

St. Barbara's Cathedral

From the side, showing off the pointy roof

Katie is sad because we got there too early and we had to wait outside until they opened to doors of the church

Kutna Hora is pretty cute in the snow

Me in the very, very cold snow

Walking the tiny streets of the town

Stone Fountain aka- a well

Fun beer named after a local celebrity

Katie enjoying her beer

Bone church! A nearly blind monk decorated the church with bones in the 1500s because the cemetery was getting too full and they had to do something with the bones.

Inside the bone church.

Decorative urn/pedastle thing

Big pile of bones

Chandelier

This church made me so happy! I've been going through physical anthropology withdrawal, so being in a building full of bones was AMAZING.

More bones

Coat of Arms

Skulls

Apparently this is supposed to be a Turk. He has ribs coming out of his head.

Kylee and Miranda. I don't think Miranda was a big fan of the bone church.

Katie and me. We didn't wear matching black and green on purpose, I swear.

Last look at the chandelier

On the bus heading back to Prague