Places alessandralee Wants to Go

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

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

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

The middle finger of modernity.

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The gigantic preserved heart of a champion racehorse.

The heart of a Scottish legend had a centuries-long journey before reaching its final resting place.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

The mummified heart of Louis XVII, the lost dauphin of the French Revolution.

An impressive ensemble of sculptures that survived the Soviet regime.