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The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

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

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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