This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

An abandoned subway tunnel that could have reinvigorated Staten Island still lies somewhere beneath this Brooklyn park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The saddest little diner in New York.

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.