these are real bones

bone chandelier
Originally uploaded by saramichael00.

This a bone chandelier in the Kostnice Ossuary in Kutna Hora. The ossuary has the bones of some 40,000 people who died from the plauge in the 14th century. An artist was later hired to creatively arrange the bones, and apparently, this chandelier utilizes every bone found in the human body. The place is eerie, and it's hard to imagine you are really looking at human bones.