With a couple of hours of free time I visited the
"Ripley's Believe it or Not", Museum on 42nd Street. As you can see from the pictures below, most of the stuff is macabre, but pretty fascinating. This is a real cross section of a human head. After being hung for murder, this criminal's head was cut in two so that it could be studied.
One of the larger exhibit rooms was filed with all sorts of medieval torture devices. Heretics were put in this contraption which was closed and strategically placed spikes did in the unfortunate participant.
This head below was the preserved skull of a deceased husband. His wife was expected to wear her husbands head on a necklace as a sign respect for the departed.
All of these items were recovered from the stomach of a man-eating shark. Notice the two swim suits, a five pound metal anchor, shovel, and horseshoe. The horseshoe had previously been attached to a donkey that fell victim to the shark.
The picture below is of a section of the Berlin Wall.
Ripley was fascinated by headhunters who decapitated their victims, removed the skull and then shrunk the skin and remaining parts of the head. There was a nice collection of heads, this one coming from a Caucasian whose misfortune it was to run into these unruly natives.
The pistol below is one of two derringer pistols John Wilkes Booth took with him to assassinate President Lincoln. It was found at the scene of the shooting and for a long time was assumed to be the murder weapon. Ballistics later determined that the actual weapon used to kill the president was an identical weapon found on his possession when he was captured.
One of the larger exhibit rooms was filed with all sorts of medieval torture devices. Heretics were put in this contraption which was closed and strategically placed spikes did in the unfortunate participant. 
This head below was the preserved skull of a deceased husband. His wife was expected to wear her husbands head on a necklace as a sign respect for the departed.
All of these items were recovered from the stomach of a man-eating shark. Notice the two swim suits, a five pound metal anchor, shovel, and horseshoe. The horseshoe had previously been attached to a donkey that fell victim to the shark.
Ripley was fascinated by headhunters who decapitated their victims, removed the skull and then shrunk the skin and remaining parts of the head. There was a nice collection of heads, this one coming from a Caucasian whose misfortune it was to run into these unruly natives. 
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