Medicine

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.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

A 'living museum' in Leiden, the oldest of its kind in the Netherlands.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Once considered the height of medical modernity, this structure is now the oldest remaining component of Roosevelt Hospital.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

The world's first experimental nutritionist is memorialized as the "Hippocrates of naval medicine."