Kaplica Czaszek is a church with a bone-chilling interior decor consisting of real human skeletons. Located in the town of Czermna in Poland, the church's walls and ceilings were fitted with thousands of skeletons starting in the 18th century.
The skulls and limb bones of over 3,000 victims were painstakingly arranged all over the walls and ceilings, while an additional 21,000 remains are stored in a trap door in a crypt beneath the church.
The skeletons belong to soldiers and civilians who died at war as well as people who perished due to disease. They are intended to be a reminder of mortality and human salvation in the face of death. The altar features the skull of the local mayor as well as several bullet-ridden skeletons whose identities are unknown.
The grim decoration was the idea of a local priest named Vaclav Tomasek, who wanted to remind the faithful of the brutality of war and the certainty of death. Tomasek's own skull was placed at the altar after his death in 1804.
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