Photo by Mihnea Stanciu
The Hallstatt Ossuary, Austria
People started to run out of space to bury their dead in the early 18th century so they built a charnel house and stored the bones of their loved ones. The body was buried in the cemetery for 10 to 15 years, then the remains were exhumed and the bones were left out and sun-bleached, then stacked here.
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