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While plenty of America’s abandoned insane asylums offer spooky tours, overnight ghost hunts, and museums filled with the torturous relics of psychiatric history, there’s one defunct mental hospital in Ohio that cranks the creepy-factor
Warm your self by the flames of your enemies burning in effigy with these life size human skull fireplace logs.
Birds Watching
This remarkable 18th-century wax anatomical model comes from the Javier Puerta Museum, and was recently on display as part of the “Arte y Carne” Exhibition this past May in Madrid. It’s similar to one I posted a few days ago, but this one depicts
Carmo Convent & Archaeological Museum in Lisbon. This mummy belongs to a young girl found in Peru in the 16th century.
21 Creepy Black And White Photos That Give 'Nightmare' A New Meaning
The amazing tunnels under NYC https://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/sets/72157632775809340/with/8477003614/
This image by Francois Boucher says it all. A fully dressed lady is relieving herself into an object called the bourdaloue or bourdalou, careful not to soil her skirts. Her maid, no doubt, stands nearby, waiting to receive the small chamber pot in order
This is a list of reasons for admission to an insane asylum from 1894 to 1889. “Menstrual derangement” is my other favorite.
preserved human heart in a leaden case, discovered in the medieval crypt of a church in Cork, Ireland
For over two centuries, the delicate art of dressing fleas in tiny costumes flourished in Guanajuato, Mexico. It is believed the craft had its beginnings in Mexican convents, and was later taken up by villagers to supply the general tourist trade during
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Museum of Anatomical Waxes “Luigi Cattezneo” (Museo Delle Cere Anatomiche “Luigi Cattaneo”): Bologna, Italy Large-scale anatomical model of the eye
Fabric art illustration for a booklet for prostitutes around the world - to inform about aids, venereal diseases, hygiene etc. Photo by Lalousha on Flickr
DAYAK TRIBE: HUMAN HEADHUNTING TROPHY SKULLS #34TWO HAND CARVED HUMAN SKULLS, SHELL, FIBER,BRASS EARRINGS, BOAR TUSK, RATTANMore amazing skulls here - http://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20Asia%20Human%20Skulls/Tribal-Art-Human-Skulls.html
The Lello Bookstore was built in 1906 in Porto, Portugal by The Lello Brothers (Antonio and Jose) who formerly owned another bookstore a few streets away. Their new bookstore is one of the most ornate bookstores in the world, mixing Neo-Gothic and
Abandoned farm in Washington | lydiafairy on Flickr
NASA scientists in 1961.
The remains of soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov after his space capsule crashed on reentry.
The Savoyard helms - a type of closed burgonet in use in the XVIIth century, it was also called the death’s head helmet in German. Even though the field of view was restricted (better helmet for jousting than combat), freedom of movement in that
The ruins of Dresden after WWII.
Einstein on the beach
German children play with stacks of money during the hyperinflation period of the Weimar Republic, 1922.
An Album Of Old Fashion Looking Freak Show People
A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic (1912).
A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he accidentally touched a high voltage wire (1967).
Lingchi, translated variously as death by a thousand cuts, is the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly AD 900 until it was banned in 1905. In this form of execution, a knife
Dollhouse Graves
The medieval knight found below the construction site has been dated to the 13th Century. A sandstone slab with carvings of an ornate sword and Calvary Cross marked the grave and was discovered next to the skeleton of the medieval knight.According to
Located near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, the city of Tiwanaku (also spelled Tiahuanaco) was the capital of a powerful pre-Inca civilization that dominated the Andean region between 500 and 900 AD. The monumental remains of this great
A lacework of bees hanging together, leg-to-leg, between the frames of comb is called a “festoon” and the behavior is called “festooning.” The bees hang in sheets between the frames; sometimes the pattern is as wide and as deep as the frame itself.
Porcelain Sculptures by Kate MacDowell http://www.artskills.net/2012/03/27/kate-mac-dowell/
Artist Aganetha Dyck collaborates with bees to create sculptures wrapped in honeycomb
It was once popularly believed that if a person died and their eyes remained open, they were looking for someone to take with them to their final destination. This was usually assumed to be someone within the family of the deceased person. To prevent
Walter Potter (2 July 1835 – 21 May 1918) was an English taxidermist noted for his anthropomorphic dioramas featuring mounted animals mimicking human life, which he displayed at his museum in Bramber, Sussex, England. The exhibition was a well-known
Behind the face
Stockings: early 19th century, French, silk.
visible horse model, 1950s
Frida Kahlo: Retrato de Luther Burbank (detail), 1931.
Medieval Button More reconstruction buttons here: http://www.silviage.pl/search/label/Guziki%20cynowe?max-results=100
Morbid Anatomy: Care and Conservation of Early 19th Century Wax Anatomical Models. Ha. Tools & Tips.
Wonderful Helioceras heteromorph ammonite (what a curious & wonderful looking creature!)
A selection of images of the long history of the brain’s depiction as charted in the newly published Portraits of the Mind. Interesting data here: http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2010/nov/28/neuroscience-images
A seven-meter wasp nest.
Early Bronze Age hair fashion in Denmark. Egtved girl, Skrydstrup woman, the young man and the old man from Borum Eshøj.
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Scottish gravestone, Holy Rood Stirlingshire. Photo credit: © R.P. McIntosh 2009
Clathrus archerii - commonly known as Octopus Stinkhorn, is indigenous to Australia and Tasmania and an introduced species in Europe, North America and Asia. The young fungus erupts from a suberumpent egg by forming into four to seven elongated slender
In Sweden, archaeologists have discovered a gold Roman coin at the site of a brutal, 1,500-year-old murder. ÖLAND, SWEDEN—For three years archaeologists have been digging at a site on the island of Öland looking for evidence of the Migration Period
Expert leggers Daniel Jinks and Ernest Wood. The two men demonstrate the process of ‘legging’ through Barnton Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal in northern England. Early canal tunnels had no tow-paths, so to propel the boat through the
Large tumor in the neck, stretched across the back, accompanied by a scoliotic deformity which ended in a tail.
An amusing erotic ivory carving of a monk (1800 to 1900 England)
Crash test dummy, Science museum, London.
Nasobema lyricum, aka “Snouter” in the Folklore Section of the Haus der Nature Museum, Austria.
Louvre Museum. The Grande Galerie abandoned during World War II
