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Brussels, Belgium
Musée de la Médecine
Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.
Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de la Medicina Mexicana
A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MĂ¼tter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
JuraguĂ¡, Cuba
Cuba's Abandoned Nuclear Plant Construction
A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.
London, England
Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum
A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.
Alfeld, Germany
Museum of Snoring
The difficulty of getting a good night's sleep is an age-old affliction according to the one-of-a-kind Snoring Museum.
Vienna, Austria
The Narrenturm
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Brussels, Belgium
Museum of Radiology
Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history.
London, England
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
Lima, Peru
Brain Museum
Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.
Permanently Closed
Kyiv, Ukraine
One Street Museum Death Mask Collection
The largest collection of death masks in Ukraine.
Permanently Closed
Boston, Massachusetts
Warren Anatomical Museum
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Permanently Closed
Buffalo, New York
Museum of disABILITY History
Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.
New Haven, Connecticut
The Cushing Center
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
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Barcelona, Spain
Sala Gimbernat
18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum Vrolik
A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.
Kirksville, Missouri
Museum of Osteopathic Medicine
A museum devoted to osteopathy and its creator, Andrew Still.
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