The Zodiac, inset in stone near the front of the church. The sun's image shining through a pinhole in a dome crosses this line every day exactly at solar noon, in the sign indicated.

A box containing the desiccated hand of presumably Eustozio-Proculo Golbodeo, presumably a saint. I bet you could get the boxes from Nieman Marcus though you would have to get the hand from a Saudi thieves-market. In the background looks like Matteo's femur. Not the Matteo though.

A detail on the baptismal font.

A page from the Koran stands on one of the pillars by the front entrance to the cathedral. This collectible dates from the Saracen occupation of 831-1072. When the Normans recaptured Sicily, they remodeled the mosque (which itself was based on a 7th century basilica) and saved this one element unchanged. I remember driving past a house on El Monte in Los Altos for a couple of years in the 1990's, which was being remodeled. Throughout the entire process, the front door and a couple of inches of wall on either side remained. Zoning laws encourage this sort of behavior.

On to next photo from "Northwestern Sicily"