by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 19, 2014 | Blog, Strange Death
Autoerotic asphyxiation is the act of strangling or suffocating yourself to heighten sexual arousal and orgasm. Depriving the brain of oxygen gives a person a dizzy, high feeling, however it’s all too easy to make a mistake and accidentally kill yourself while...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 19, 2014 | Blog, Murder
The custom of burying infant children in the foundations of new buildings – a sacrifice to “ground” the building and assuage the gods of earthquakes, floods, and other misfortunes – was well established in ancient and even medieval times. However, nowadays...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 18, 2014 | Blog, Grave
This headstone is also located at the Recoleta Cemetery in Argentina. What’s unusual about it? Well, a man sitting on his sofa looking seriously at the horizon while a woman is seated in another one, at his back, but they are looking in opposite directions. They...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog, WWII
A treasure trove of stolen Nazi art worth billions and believed to be lost forever was discovered behind tins of rotted food in an apartment in Munich. Some 1500 works by master painters such as Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, and Chagall were said to have been lost in the...
by Cabinet of Curiosities | Jan 16, 2014 | Archive
Lovely Victorian hand painted porcelain portrait.