 The Shroud of Turin. The Wright Brothers  plane. The treasures of King Tut. This is a captivating examination of some of the most famous objects and artifacts in human history. Some are macabre (Abraham Lincoln s deathbed), some priceless (the Declaration of Independence) and some more curious than anything else. Features include {Episode 1:} Einstein s brain, a stuffed-and-mounted philosopher, and the Gettysburg Address; {Episode 2:} the car that carried John F. Kennedy to his death, the wooden gun that John Dillinger used to bluff his way out of jail, and the amputated, stuffed leg of a Civil War general; {Episode 3:} John Paul Jones s body, the London Bridge, and George Washington s wooden teeth; {Episode 4:} Jackie Onassis Kennedy s blood-stained dress, King Herod s tub, Paul Revere s lantern, and footage of the Spanish American War; {Episode 5:} the bus ridden on by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, the boat from the movie "The African Queen", an English ruler who lost his head after he was buried, a fire horse who lost his hoof on the way to a fire, and monsters in New Jersey; {Episode 6:} the metal staircase at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon that thousands of evacuees climbed, the tumor taken from Grover Cleveland s throat; {Episode 7-8:} Edison s electric killing machine, Togo the sled dog, Calvin Coolidge s exercise horse, Elvis Presley s purple Cadillac, Ludwig van Beethoven s hearing aid, William Shakespeare s will; {Episode 9:} Lewis & Clark s luggage, the Hollywood sign, faked photographs of fairies, the first vacuum cleaner, and the crew compartment of the ill-fated Challenger Space Shuttle; {Episode 10:} the St. Valentine s Day Massacre wall, the invention of barbed wire, a legless WWII ace who nearly escaped a POW camp on tin limbs, Alan Shepard s golf shot on the moon, the first metal detector, the pressed aluminum disk cut by convicted murderer Lead Belly, and a visit to a Civil War-era Washington, D.C. brothel; {Episode 11:} the stuffed animal that inspired the classic Winnie the Pooh stories and sparked an international controversy, an escape from the prison known as "The Rock", Alfred Packer - the Colorado Cannibal, America s first astronauts - monkeys named Able and Baker, love letters from King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, and John Wayne on the way to the Alamo; {Episode 12:} the truth behind the death of Jesse James, the guillotine, the barber who killed mob boss Anastasia, Mark Twain s bed, the image of the Marines planting the Stars and Stripes on Mt. Suribachi, the first issue of Mad Magazine and Hugh Hefner s pajamas; {Episode 13:} Imelda Marcos s shoes, Al Capone s Cadillac and Lizzie Borden s ax; {Episode 14:} Buddy Holly s glasses and the original Monopoly board; {Episode 15:} Eva Braun s home movies, the infamous dress Marilyn Monroe wore at JFK s 45th birthday celebration; {Episode 16:} first Apple computer, George Washington s schoolbooks, President Herbert Hoover s invented game called Hooverball, reel-to-reel tapes laid down by Louis Armstrong, and the last New York City Checker cab; {Episode 17:} Andy Warhol s wigs, the funeral bier of Lincoln and Kennedy, a record-breaking car, and the Lone Ranger s mask; {Episode 18:} the letters of Mary Todd Lincoln, the origins of the recreational vehicle, Jayne Mansfield s death car, a surfboard, a musical instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin; {Episode 19:} the remains of the Hindenburg, the Appomattox surrender tables, Ghandi s bloodstained dhoti, the first Zippo lighter, the original text of the Nuremberg laws, Ronald Reagan s booth at Chasen s, and James Dean s motorcycle; {Episode 20:} Joseph Haydn s lost head, Liberace s rhinestone piano, the first cellular phone, Silly Putty, the large shoes of Charlie Chaplin, and the Confederate Constitution; {Episode 21:} Hitler s moveable bunker, the first microwave oven, Jim Thorpe s Olympic medals, Painless Parker s tooth necklace, the Watergate address book, Colonel Sanders s pressure cooker; {Episode 22:} the original La-Z-Boy and Schindler s famous list; {Episode 23:} the death car of General George Patton, the first Academy Award, the U-2 spy plane in which Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, and the first modern surfboard; {Episode 25:} secret White House tapes made by Lyndon Johnson, the car that got Henry Ford started on the road to his destiny, Elvis Presley s official (and ironic) DEA badge, the story of the remains of the unknown soldier, the first parking meter, and the fans of dancer Sally Rand; {Episode 26:} Rin Tin Tin, Stanley Milgram s Shock Box, the coat Admiral Nelson wore for his final battle, John Lennon s station wagon, and Charlie Parker s plastic saxophone; {Episode 27:} Jack Ruby s gun, the lost squadron of WWII, the original Sun Studio soundboard, the first transistor, the heart of Louis XVII, the original Coke bottle; {Episode 28:} the USS Pampanito, Mark David Chapman s autographed Double Fantasy album, the first Mustang convertible, JFK s missing tooth, Thomas Edison s tinfoil phonograph, and St. Stephen s crown; {Episode 29:} the Spruce Goose, Elvis Presley s guitar, Shackleton s Arctic survivor: the James Caird, George Washington s inaugural Bible, the original TV dinner tray; {Episode 30:} Malcolm X s blood-stained diary, the world s only private subway car, Peter the Great s amber chamber, Pancho Villa s death mask, Bonnie and Clyde s death car, and the log of the Mayflower. In the stories that surround them, history and the human condition are illuminated.