Mummies

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

This 80-year old mannequin is so lifelike it is believed to be an embalmed corpse.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.