The “Body Worlds” exhibit

A visitor at "Body Worlds" examines one of the specimens.  (Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com)

Spectators look at a human specimen posed as a football player.  (Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com)

Transparent horizontal body slices. (Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com )

Heart and lung specimen of a smoker.  (Mother and Child at BODY WORLDS in Berlin, Germany, 2001(Plastinate: Blood Vessel Configuration of a Rabbit))

Heart and lung specimen of a non-smoker.  (Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com)

A photo of one of the exhibitions.  (Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com)

Heart, opened longitudinally.  (Gunther von Hagens, Institute for Plastination, Heidelberg, Germany, www.bodyworlds.com)