Gold pig charms that hide a tiny erotic photo viewed by peering into the pig’s butt hole
Categories: Curiosities, Strange Photographs, Unsettling Things • Tags: animals in art, curiosities, erotic, humor, jewelry, photography, victorian era
The ‘St Dennistoun Mortuary’ is a macabre coin-operated automaton made around 1900. When a coin is inserted, the doors open to reveal morticians working on several dead bodies laid out on embalming tables.
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art • Tags: automaton, curiosities, death, memento mori
An exploding rat from World War Two
Categories: Curiosities, history • Tags: animal, curiosities, explosive, rat, spy, WWII
Screaming baby dolls made by German dollmaker Kestner around 1920
Categories: Curiosities • Tags: doll, humor, scream, unsettling
The creepy doll girlfriend made for artist Oskar Kokoschka in 1919
Categories: Curiosities, Historical Art, Unsettling Things • Tags: art, artist, creepy, doll, erotic
A witch whistle made from carved bone and a rat’s paw in 19th century Belgium.
Categories: Curiosities, Museums • Tags: instrument, museum, rat, witch
A terrifying example of a traditional Irish jack-o’-lantern carved from a turnip around 1850
Categories: Curiosities, Museums, Unsettling Things • Tags: carving, creepy, face, folklore, halloween, vegetable
Christine Borland’s ‘Set Conversation Pieces’ (1998) combine obstetric pelvises with 18th century English china.
Categories: Contemporary Art, Curiosities • Tags: body, medicine, porcelain, sculpture
A very weird 18th century print of a woman feeding a swaddled cat
Categories: Historical Art • Tags: cat, satire, weird
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things