The poems of Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried with his young wife when she died of an opiate overdose, but six years later he retrieved them from the grave and published them, to much fanfare. From the TLS.
I study art history and I tend to find curious things that incite questions, reveal our corporeal unease, and generally make us think about how we consider the human body conceptually and physically. And so I present to you the strange gems I've come across.