The Baltimore Sun has a recent article about the eight most unromantic places to visit. One is the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato:

                                          ( Daniel Jayo / Associated Press )

At this museum in central Mexico, you'll find over 100 mummies exhumed from a Guanajuato cemetery between 1870 and 1958. In 1870, a local law required families to pay a tax to ensure that their deceased loved ones stayed buried. The penalty for not paying was disinterment.