Montpellier, France
Musée d’Anatomie de Montpellier
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
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Montpellier, France
This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Tokyo, Japan
Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.
Worcester, England
Quaint, disturbing, and macabre objects are all on display at this intriguing collection of medical instruments from bygone eras.
Nagasaki, Japan
A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.
Nagasaki, Japan
A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.
London, England
The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.
Naples, Italy
An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.
London, England
This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.
Warsaw, Poland
One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.
Copenhagen, Denmark
A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Tübingen, Germany
The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.
Paris, France
A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.
Zurich, Switzerland
One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
This taxidermilogical collection was assembled by a peltmonger turned animal activist.
Lausanne, Switzerland
Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.
St. Gallen, Switzerland
This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Faro, Portugal
This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.
Singapore
The oldest Muslim cemetery in Singapore, with a strong royal connection.
Singapore
One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.
Valongo, Portugal
An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.