Places chrisferry Wants to Go

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

When this Iron Age bog body was discovered in 1835, it was thought that she had died recently.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

A Japanese video game arcade hides in the back of a Swedish pool hall.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.