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A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.

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.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

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 middle finger of modernity.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A 21-foot-tall pyramid in a Northern Irish woodland marks the grave of... nobody.