One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, ...

“Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, cast in bronze before 1844), medalist: Pierre Jean David d’Angers, cast by Eck et Durand (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) This coming spring, Bentham’s ...

As far as human remains go, the auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham is well-traveled. The model of the British philosopher—consisting of a wax head and a foam body built around his actual skeleton—has been ...

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 ...

DEEP in the bowels of one of Britain’s oldest universities lies a tourist attraction that’s like no other. The preserved corpse of kooky 19th century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, dressed up in his ...

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 ...