Places rog18 Wants to Go

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.

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

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

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

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

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