Anatomical Theaters

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

In the world's oldest university is a stunning 17th century anatomical theater carved from spruce.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.