Canneto sull'Oglio, Italy
Chiesa di Santa Croce detta 'Dei Morti'
Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.
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Canneto sull'Oglio, Italy
Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.
Berlin, Germany
A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.
Dundee, Scotland
People leave coins atop an unusual grave marker in one of Scotland's oldest burial grounds.
Rudbaxton, Wales
Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
San Martino della Battaglia, Italy
The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.
Leiden, Netherlands
The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.
Dublin, Ireland
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
St. Augustine, Florida
The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A collection of unique objects showcasing the university’s achievements in the medical field.
Basel, Switzerland
A journey through every aspect of the human body.
Rockville, Maryland
This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.
Toulouse, France
A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.
Leiden, Netherlands
Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.
Mexico City, Mexico
Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Tallinn, Estonia
The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This museum explores the lives of Chang and Eng, the "Original Siamese Twins."
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Clarence, New York
This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.
Porto, Portugal
When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.
Slovenia
Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.
Rome, Italy
A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.
Chios, Greece
This 11th-century Greek monastery has renowned mosaics and relics of a brutal past.