And I said to the priest, when do we get to the place where all the bones are?

And he says to me, but sir, we are here now and he turns on a flashlight and he points

it down and I realized that the cracking of twigs I heard was us breaking rib cages.

I'm Dylan Therese and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange

incredible and wondrous places.

Today we're headed to the Yamrahana Christos Church in Ethiopia.

We're going with photographer and author Paul Kudinaris and we'll talk about osuaries,

jeweled skeletons, and the beauty found in death practices the whole world over.

More, after this.

Where are you right now?

I'm about 20 minutes east of Beth Valley on the Nevada side.

So pretty remote area.

Yeah, it is.

Like I said, I'd like to get back to do a city at some point in time.

That's Paul Kudinaris.

He's a photographer and author and for a good part of the pandemic, Paul has been living

way out in death Valley.

It's really sparse out here.

Well he's been out there.

Paul has been spending his time exploring the landscape and by that, I mean, going deep

into old abandoned minds.

I don't advise anyone over does this as a hobby, but it's kind of like it's one of those

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