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.

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

The morbid items in this small and hidden museum are not for the weak stomached.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.