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Anglo-Saxon artifacts found in the Taplow burial mound, Buckinghamshire, England. Now displayed in the British Museum, London.
Plague bell from the great plague of 1665.
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Medical Oddities, Nature’s Anomalies and Carnival Gaffs: A Pop Up Book for Children by crowolf. Just wow.
Armadillo fetus, Hunterian Museum: The collection of anatomical specimens of pioneering surgeon John Hunter (1728–93) inspired this fascinating, slightly morbid, little-known, yet fantastic London museum.
A real human body in cross sections at Museum of Surgical Science. The museum houses an amazing collection of medical, surgical and anatomical paraphernalia through the ages including this amazing plastinated human sliced into 1cm sections. The Museum
Playing card, 1700s. Ten of spades with cat playing fiddle for dancing mice.
Disabled French soldier
Visit the bridal shop where an embalmed corpse models the dresses For the past 75 years, a tiny bridal shop in Mexico has been the subject of some pretty crazy rumors. Tales of supernatural fiddling abound, with whispers of disembodied voices, mysterious
This heap of ashes and bones is the debris from one days killing of German prisoners by 88 troopers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar in Germany, shown on April 25, 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. So beautiful!
St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans
The “Body Chute” — Used to remove dead bodies in secret at Waverly Hills Sanitorium
Here’s an unusual and rather poignant momento mori of poor Captain George Holmes - senior officer killed in one of the hardest hit infantry battalions at the Battle of Waterloo. He was killed by a small lead ball that entered his chest cavity, after
Evergreen Cemetery, just off of Town Hill Road in New Haven, VT, is generally unremarkable as far as cemeteries go, except for one fascinating interment. His name was Timothy Clark Smith, and he was a 19th century doctor who suffered from taphephobia,
18th century Bleeding bowl.
Model used for studying and treatment of jaw fractures. From the Institute of Dentistry, University of Zurich, 1900 - 1930
Surgical suture sampler, circa 18th century. Zurich Medical History Museum
Black Rat Snake climbs a brick wall. Photo credit: kasiahalka
Malformed – A Collection of Human Brains from the Texas State Mental Hospital - Adam Vorhees
Many parents who gave up their children to the hospital left them with identifying tokens to make sure they could recognise them at a later date. London’s Foundling Museum has a vast collection of small objects such as coins, buttons and thimbles
Wheelchair used at Mont Park Hospital for the Insane circa 1920. Collection: Museum Victoria.
Polacel Cooling Tower
Portrait of Burgfraulein von Strechau in the 1600s The legend tells that in the late Middle Ages a damsel waited for her lover who left to the Holy Land to fight the infidels. The lady promised that if he did not return she would enter a monastery.
Bloom of moon jellies (Aurelia aurita), in Chesapeake Bay. Scott Kupiec
by David Muench
Yosemite Firefall The Yosemite Firefall was a summertime event that began in 1872 and continued for almost a century, in which burning hot embers were spilled from the top of Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park to the valley 3,000 feet below.
Carved Skulls by Don Simpson
Lyre, 19th century. Medium: human skull, antelope horn, skin, gut, hair. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 (89.4.1268)
Blood vessels show where the two skull bones are fusing in a 9-week-old fetus.
Human Anatomy Dissection (video link)
Building human body parts Alex Seifalian’s lab at University College London is helping humans who lose body parts to repair their bodies the way a newt would if it lost its tail – by growing another. The lab builds a scaffold of the needed body part
Fossil - Eocene age shell that has been replaced by translucent golden Agate. From Dakhla, Morocco
Fossilized snake skin in Boulder Opal // Queensland, Australia
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Facts about Bones
The bones of an 89-year old female with osteoporosis.
In Hugo, OK (Circus City USA) there is a cemetery that has a special section for deceased circus performers. There are some very interesting headstones with elephants, clowns, and big top tents.
Automation Trumpet Player by Friedrich Kaufmann from 1810. The Kaufmann Trumpeter had leather bellows for lungs and reeds which imitated the sound of a brass instrument
Sawn stalactite
Moqui marbles, utah Iron oxide concretions (Moqui marbles) Moqui Marbles, hematite concretions, from the Navajo Sandstone of southeast Utah. The Navajo Sandstone is also well known among rockhounds for its hundreds of thousands of iron oxide concretions
Bronze Age stoneworks located on the Woodhouse Crag on the northern edgge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, UK
Fireman’s bicycle, 1905
Car Cemetary, France
Flesh eating bacteria
‘Madonna Ouvrante’ with Holy Trinity Inside, French c. 1400
Box “Boy with pumpkin.” 1866
Breast Ripper: Used as a way to punish women, the breast ripper was a painful and cruel way to mutilate a woman’s breasts. The claws were used either hot or cold on the victim’s exposed breasts. If the victim wasn’t killed she would
Carmagnolle diving suit - France - 1880.
Postmortem corneal clouding with tache noire. If the eyes remain open after death, the areas of the sclera exposed to the air dry out, which results in a first yellowish, then brownish-blackish band like discoloration zone called tache noire. It is most
From fear to calm
Native Bee Spiral Brood Comb and Honey Comb There are around 10 species of social bees in Australia. They live in colonies and have no stings. Of these few social bees there are just a couple that produce and store honey that can be extracted.
Mourning ring, Birmingham Museum. Gold enamel and human hair. English, 17th c.
Photograph of Mary H. Helgeson surrounded by her actual hair. 1930.
Hollywood auditions for black cat, 1961
1966 Peel Trident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Trident
The carved surface of this ostrich egg shows what is thought to be the oldest known map of the New World on a globe [~1504]
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library, Hereford, England (Rare books were once kept chained to the bookshelf to prevent stealing.)
Ambergris Sperm whales eject an intestinal slurry called ambergrisinto the ocean, where the substance hardens as it bobs along. Eventually it gets collected along shores. The value of ambergris lies in its role in the fragrance industry. High-end perfumes
The Library at the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum, designed by Tadao Ando, Osaka, Japan. This is a museum/library/memorial/architectural beauty in Eastern Osaka (東大阪). It’s a tribute to the life works of Shiba Ryotaro, a journalist and historical
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