Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. Jeremy Bentham has been sitting in a corridor at University College London since 1850.

For litigation financiers, the money just keeps coming in the door. Australia-based IMF Bentham Ltd. announced Thursday its U.S. arm had raised $275 million from outside investors, with the ...

Jeremy Bentham had a problem. He may have been dead, but that wasn't it—the iconoclastic philosopher left strict instructions about what to do with his body after his demise in 1832, and they didn't ...

Philosopher Jeremy Bentham's severed head will put on display for exhibit, with scientists also looking to see if the famed eccentric may have had autism. Bentham, who died in 1832, was a leading ...

“Jeremy Bentham” (France, modeled 1830, cast in bronze before 1844), medalist: Pierre Jean David d’Angers, cast by Eck et Durand (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art) This coming spring, Bentham’s ...

The skeletal body of Jeremy Bentham sits on public display in a glass-fronted case at University College London. Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, left careful instructions for the use of his ...

One day toward the beginning of March, an unusual object arrived at a New York City airport. Carefully encased in a foam-padded, specially built wooden chair and strapped in with a bright-blue sash, ...

“I was in there on Monday recording the trailer for Cats,” says Becky Bentham casually, gesturing across the garden of Abbey Road Studios, while showing me round the iconic North London building.