Showing posts with the label Body Parts

Daniel Sickles's Leg

Feb 22, 2023

One of the most visited exhibits at Washington's National Museum of Health and Medicine is the shattered leg bones of an American Civil ...

The Strange Tale of Lord Uxbridge's Leg

Oct 13, 2022

At the Battle of Waterloo, on 18 June 1815, Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, and later the 1st Marquess of Anglesey—a veteran of many mili...

The Hand of Glory

May 4, 2019

At the Whitby Museum in North Yorkshire is a strange artifact—a dismembered hand, dried and shriveled. It once belonged to a man who was han...

Kittiwat Unarrom Creates Gruesome Human Body Parts out of Bread

Jun 10, 2012

Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom bakes disturbingly realistic bread sculpted in the shape of dismembered human body parts. Since 2006 ...

Hair Museum of Avanos, Turkey

Apr 27, 2011

The Avanos hair museum situated in Cappadocia in Turkey is notably one of the strangest museums that you will come across. The museum is lo...

Gunther von Hagens’s Plastinated Animal Exhibition

Apr 15, 2011

Plastination is a technique of preserving bodies or body parts by replacing the water and fat components by certain plastics, thereby yieldi...

The World’s Most Famous Brain

Mar 8, 2011

The brain pictured below is considered to be the world’s most famous brain. It belonged to a man named Henry Gustav Molaison, known as “Pati...