An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The mummified remains of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Russia's most important Buddhist.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

Remarkably preserved body discovered in a peat bog.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

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

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.