Skulls

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

This Italian church is as beautiful as it is common, except for the real skulls decorating the many mannequins inside.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.