The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

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.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.