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Bone houses? I'm afraid of the dark...among other things but I'm not telling :p

Bone houses.



This one is in the Austrian city of Hallstadt which is one of the oldest still existing settlements in the world because of it's salt mine. It was already a trade center in the bronze age.

Bone houses were built when local cemeteries were rather small. So after a period of time, the graves were opened and the bones transferred to the bone house to make room for new graves.

And that's the cemetary. The city's enclosed by mountains and a lake, so there's not much room.