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Puebla, Mexico
Museo Casa del Mendrugo
Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history
Freeport, Maine
Maine Beer Company
Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.
Slovenia
Kranj Ossuary
Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.
Fairview, Utah
Spirit the Columbian Mammoth
One of the most intact and well-preserved skeletons of a mammoth in the world is displayed in a tiny Utah town.
Tualatin, Oregon
Ice Age Floods display at Tualatin Public Library
A public library display of fossils from the ice age.
Riga, Latvia
RSU Anatomy Museum
See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.
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The Jeremy Bentham Auto-Icon: Why This Legendary Philosopher Put His Own Body on Display
You can visit the father of utilitarianism anytime you like. But will it make you happy?
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
The Blue Whale at the Core Science Facility
A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.
Modena, Italy
Lovers of Modena
Archeologists can't decide if these two hand-holding skeletons were brothers or lovers.
Salisbury, England
Amesbury Archer
Pivotal in the research of early British Bronze Age life, found near Stonehenge.
Aulendorf, Germany
Skeletons of St. Martin Church
Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.
Bern, Switzerland
Elephant of Murten
The skeleton of a 19th-century elephant that was executed by cannonball.
Tainan City, Taiwan
Sperm Whale Exhibition Hall
Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.
Leicester, England
King Richard III's Car Park
More than 500 years after his death, a medieval ruler's remains were found buried under a parking lot.
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Giant Kangaroos Once Towered Over Humans at 8 Feet Tall
New studies from a boneyard of fossilized skeletons may reveal why the 'roos grew and hopped the way they do.
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The Archaeology Journalist Whose Adventures Are Stranger Than Fiction
From venom that can bubble human skin to a sealed Egyptian tomb, Douglas Preston's got an Indiana Jones thing going on.
Imperial, Missouri
Mastodon State Historic Site
More than 12,000 years ago, this park was a playground for mastodons.
Romano di Lombardia, Italy
Church of San Rocco
Hundreds of plague victims were buried beneath this small, rural church.
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