An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A seven-century-old jail tells a not-so-pleasant history of crime and punishment.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

This 18th-century dissection theater's frescoes display a gorgeous tension between the terrestrial and esoteric.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Contains some of the world's more disturbing wax anatomical models.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Ancient stone dildos and other odd pieces of medical history are displayed at this quirky Cyprus gem.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

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

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The ruins of a world-renowned medieval hospital.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

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

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.