Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Jeremy Bentham has been sitting in a corridor at University College London since 1850.

The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to New York for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body. “Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, ...

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism. Bentham, who died in 1832, was a leading ...

Jeremy Bentham died in 1832. Unlike most people, however, the English philosopher decided on a rather unusual posthumous operation. Bentham made instructions in his will, aged just 21, for him to be ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, sitting as an en banc panel of 11 judges, sent shock waves through the world of First Amendment enthusiasts on July 29 with its opinion in American Meat ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Bodies end up being preserved in many ways, for many reasons, and through ...

WHEN I first knew this great and good man, he was in his seventy-ninth year, and quite as remarkable for strength of constitution, (though he had been always ailing up to the age of threescore,) and ...