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

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

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

An ancient ossuary in Rouen.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The sole surviving large cairn in an area that was once littered with burial monuments.

Some believe that the stone once used to coronate Scottish kings resides inside this bar.

These stones date back to the 3rd or 2nd millennium B.C.

This small memorial honors a ferocious feline and local hero.

Considered "the most original, complete, and unimproved" circles in Aberdeenshire.

Dedicated to one of the nation's worst engineering disasters.

These plaques located in a court preserve a small piece of Edinburgh's history.

A distinctive building that incorporates a mythical beast into its architecture.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

On a hill overlooking Loch Trool, a granite boulder marks the site where Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, defeated an English army.

The unexpected mascot of Shetland's capital.

A sculpture commemorating the "world's best mouser" in what is likely Scotland's longest-running distillery