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Discover the bizarre skeleton bar and the artistic genius of HR Giger in this edition of Darn Cool Pics. Click to explore more!

Written byPhil Plait
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I subscribe to a blog called, um, Darn Cool Pics, which has, well, cool pictures. Duh. Yesterday it featured images too cool not to share. It's a bar made of skeletons -- well, models of them -- and I knew right away who the artist was.

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Yeah, HR Giger (pronounced "geeger"), the freaked-out mind behind the alien in the Aliens movies. I'm not sure I could eat well in a place like that. And I certainly wouldn't order the eggs!

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