York's famous Jorvik Viking Centre features a massive, incredibly popular museum exhibit dedicated to a thousand-year-old fossilized piece of human feces known as the Lloyds Bank coprolite.

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York's famous Jorvik Viking Centre features a massive, incredibly popular museum exhibit dedicated to a thousand-year-old fossilized piece of human feces known as the Lloyds Bank coprolite. Discovered by archaeologists in the 1970s right before a bank was constructed on the site, this colossal eight-inch Viking turd has been heavily analyzed by scientists to determine the terrible, parasite-ridden diet of medieval populations. Tourists actively pay real, hard-earned money to gather around a glass display case and marvel at an enormous piece of ancient waste that managed to survive centuries of English history. It is a profound testament to the bizarre nature of the modern tourism industry that a literal piece of prehistoric garbage is treated with the exact same museum reverence as a priceless crown jewel. You can travel across the world seeking profound cultural enlightenment, but human beings will always be endlessly fascinated by an uncomfortably large poop!