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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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 remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.

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

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