A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

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.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

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.

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.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

A replica of fossils believed to be the first scientifically-described dinosaur bones found in North America.

The notorious pirate William Kidd might have buried his treasure around this local pond.

Paisley's oldest open green space contains a rather ostentatious fountain at its center.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

This risqué sculpture, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, caused outrage 35 years after it was erected.