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Tomb of Philippe Pot, c. 1480. Formerly in Citeaux, now in the Louvre.
The Alnarp Library in Sweden has a 217 volume collection of wooden books called The Tree Library. Each book describes a specific tree—its binding is bark, moss and lichens found on that species and the book interiors hold more natural surprises. The
“Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva is a disease where the body’s repair mechanism is completely broken, and starts “healing” the fibrous tissue (muscles, tendons and ligaments) by turning them into bone. Your whole body is slowly being
Discovered in a mouse trap in Metepec, Mexico, this bizarre creature seams to combine features both animal, human, and alien. Perhaps it is a mummifed fairy or a tiny visitor from beyond the stars. Some say it is nothing but a mummified monkey and a hoax.
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“Dissecting the criminal brain. This 1904 photograph by Argentinian physician Dr. F. Perez shows a section of an executed criminal’s brain. Unfortunately, his work merited little results - he found no major differences between the brains of
Trichobezoar - hairball in the shape of a stomach removed from a 12 year-old girl after she spent 6 years eating her hair.
Mummified infant in the crypt of the Monastery of Santa Maria della Pace, (Palermo, Sicily, Italy)
The Brazen Bull was hollow to allow a victim to be shut inside with a fire set under it, causing the person inside to roast to death. It was created strictly for the purpose of executing criminals of the state. The bull was designed in such a way that
Benjamin Rush, father of American Psychiatry, believed that mental diseases were caused by irritation of the blood vessels in the brain. His treatment methods included bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths, and mercury, and he invented a tranquilizer
A WWII trench art coffin with a skeleton inside. The coffin lid, marked Italy 1945, slides open to reveal a skeleton. When the lid opens, the skeleton reveals an erected penis.
Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus
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Syphilitic skull. Tertiary syphilis, untreated for almost 27 years. 1910. From National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Vintage Braces
n the small town of Ashland, Pennsylvania, Route 61 takes an unexplained detour; a “Keep Out” sign straddles the original highway. Ignore the warning and you’ll arrive in the abandoned town of Centralia, where an underground mine fire has been
St. Roche’s Chapel, New Orleans
17th century French chastity belt.
Isolator - 1925 Invented by science fiction pioneer Hugi Gernsbeck, the “Isolator” was designed to help focus the mind when reading or writing, by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, not only by eliminating all outside noise, but
Swamp sculpture in Eastern Ireland
“In some types of Christianity, yew is planted around graveyards not only to remind visitors of eternal life but to keep the dead from wandering from their graves before Judgment Day. Some Norse Pagans believed that precisely because yew stood between
“The Hands Resist Him” by Bill Stoneham, the mysterious haunted painting sold on ebay in 2000
Skull of “the people of the red deer cave”, the youngest known prehistoric population who do not look like modern humans (fossils dated between 14,500 and 11,500 years old), unearthed in some caves in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China.
Hill of Crosses, Lithuania
“I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched.
1400 Year Old Vampire skeleton Found in UK
Sylvia Plath was found like this on the morning of 11 February 1963, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the kitchen with her head in the oven. She had sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with wet towels and cloths. Plath then
Conjoined fetal pigs
Hermaphroditus, Roman marble, Imperial period (3rd century CE) – This Hermaphroditus is called “Stante” (relieved) because carved with the male member in erection, shown by the woman’s dress lifted to the waist. Discovered in a
Face mask on a burn patient. Facial burns disrupt anatomical and functional structures creating pain, deformity, swelling, and contractures that may lead to lasting physical and psychological sequelae. The management of facial burns may include operative
It’s Dede: The “Tree Man” Dede, aka “Tree Man“, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears. After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts
Extremely rare Tibetan shaman’s mask formed and carved from bits of a human skull.
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THE BURNS ARCHIVE CIVIL WAR EXHIBITION - SMALLPOX NY CITY EPIDEMIC. Victims of the smallpox epidemic in 1881. More people died from smallpox than any other disease in history.
Table of supposed causes of insanity, 1882
Rock-cut tombs in Myra, an ancient town in Lycia, Turkey.
Battery, Baghdad, 250 BCE. The Baghdad Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250). The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed of a clay jar with a stopper made of asphalt
A forensic analysis carried out on the mummy of King Ramesses III has revealed that the pharaoh had his throat slit. The first CT scans to examine the king’s mummy reveal a cut to the neck deep enough to be fatal. The secret has been hidden for centuries
Public execution of Herta Kašparová. Czechoslovakia, 13.9.1946.
Electric flesh brush
Medical bone saws
Crematorium
The Starchild Skull DNA proves it is not entirely human
Necromancer Briefcase
Taklamakan mummy The Taklamakan Mummies Perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies with long reddish-blond hair, European features.They may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Modern
The latest science suggests that old-timey Europe’s “humane” method of execution, decapitation, is a sham — heads seem remain alive for up to a minute after being disconnected from the lower portions. And theoretically they could survive if quickly
Baby mummy from the 16 century.
Abandoned Ireland
Cesare Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology, Roma, Italy - Lombroso realized the brain of hardened criminals was different than that of a normal brain so he collected heads, skulls, and the weapons and tools used by many of the killers of
Small anatomical models with removable organs and skin
Cemetery Gun: The gun, which the museum dates to 1710, is mounted on a mechanism that allows it to spin freely. Cemetery keepers set up the flintlock weapon at the foot of a grave, with three tripwires strung in an arc around its position. A prospective
King Tut’s grandmother Queen Tiye, the mother of Pharaoh Akhenaten. The hairpiece behind her is believed to have been made up of her own hair. It has not disintegrated because of the mummification process and the dry conditions within the tomb
Severed head portrait
Amputated hand re-attached to the patient’s right side for nerve regeneration and proper blood flow.
Believe it or not, this is an enterolith, or a pearl like structure removed from the intestine of a horse.
Fulgarite (sand that has been struck by lightning)
Accidental Mysteries, 09.30.12: Art without Artists: Observatory: Design Observer -Ceremonial mask, 20th century, Mexico, fashioned from found soccer ball, paper, twine, 7 ½" x 8 ¼" x 8", collection of Shari Cavin and Randall
Peter the Wild Boy 1785… “a feral 12 yr old found in the German forest in 1725. Peter walked on all fours, ate grass & leaves and never learned to speak.He was bought to London and lived at the castle,virtually a "pet”. He
