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The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

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

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

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

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

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

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

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.