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Next to a shiny new bike, the best Christmas present I could hope for when I was young was a box of LEGO bricks. We weren’t well off, so the LEGO was always more of a going proposition, and besides could be played with when it was raining.

And we’re talking proper LEGO: not the one-trick pony kit stuff you get today (which can admittedly be totally awesome), but all sorts of shapes and colours of bricks that could make anything, limited only by your imagination. For me, LEGO was (is!) all about creativity.

It doesn’t get much more creative than MOCpages, the LEGO community site. Take, for example (and seeing as this is meant to be about science in some way), this LEGO frog dissection:

LEGO frog, by Dave Kaleta

I came across this rather stunning and detailed model at Street Anatomy, a strangely compelling website that “obsessively covers the use of human anatomy in medicine, art, and design.” There is some beautiful, and occasionally bizarre, art at Street Anatomy. Check it out—but be warned, you might find some of it disturbing.