The 10 Best Scary Museums In The World You Don’t Want To See When You’re Alone

1. Museum of Death – Los Angeles, California, USA

The Museum of Death in Los Angeles, which displays the largest collection of art created by serial killers, will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

The gruesome images of crime scenes and autopsies will make you want to vomit. The most catastrophic car accidents will make you never want to drive again. The museum also displays rooms full of utensils and implements used in funerals, photographs of their executions, an interesting graphic exhibition of each murder case, and a room specializing in suicide cases. If you are still not “biased” after seeing all that, check out the video that is always playing on the museum screen, featuring deadly images and the dark story of Bluebeard’s brutal wife-killer in Paris.

Museum of Death – Los Angeles, California, USA

2. Museum of the Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico

A unique and amazing museum located in the town of Guanajuanto, Mexico. Here 111 mummies of men, women and children are displayed, who seem to laugh sadly because life has brought them to this state. The bodies were originally buried during a cholera epidemic in 1833, but were later unearthed from the cemetery between 1865 and 1958.

Museum of Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico is becoming more and more famous as tourists come to admire this unique collection. You will see the smallest mummies in the world, even the fetus of a pregnant woman who died of cholera. The mummies are still wearing their original clothes, some are naked and the images are disturbing. Seeing these people clearly visible before your eyes will definitely bring you unforgettable impressions.

Museum of Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico

Museum of the Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico

3. Vent Haven Puppet Museum – Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA

The ventriloquist puppets on display here look ancient and mysterious, reminding us of old festivals and vaudeville acts. However, the light falling on them makes them feel scary. They are used to tell stories about life and people, and their vividness makes spectators shudder. With over 700 puppets, each player seems to have a mind of their own, making this space eerie and haunting.

Vent Haven Museum is not only a place to display ventral voice puppets, but also the only place in the world with more than 700 exquisitely carved wooden puppets. When visiting the museum, you will feel their empty eyes always staring at you, making the atmosphere mysterious and magical. Challenge yourself and face the mystery here!

Vent Haven Puppet Museum – Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA

Vent Haven Puppet Museum – Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA

4. Glore Psychiatric Museum – Joseph Street, Missouri, USA

As you step into the Glore Psychiatric Museum , the light immediately transforms into darkness, creating a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. Opened in 1968 in a psychiatric hospital known as ‘State Insane Asylum #2’ since 1874, the museum houses dark reminders of a dangerous past.

The atmosphere of the museum is nothing but the sound of the wailing and groaning of souls who have endured brutal ‘treatment’ methods. Imagine being imprisoned in a ‘hollow wheel’, having to run non-stop for 48 hours straight, or strapped to a ‘sedation chair’, bleeding every six months to reduce the blood pressure of the brain. These methods are difficult to comprehend in our minds today.

You will find terrifying images of terrifying memories, terrifying treatment tools, and even artwork created by people with mental illness. This place also displays strange objects removed from the stomachs of sick people, which makes you feel really grateful to live with a normal mind.

Glore Museum of Spirituality – Joseph Street, Missouri, USA Glore Museum of Spirituality – Joseph Street, Missouri, USA

5. Musee Dupuytren Museum – Paris, France

This unique and terrifying museum contains artifacts from real fetuses. The Dupuytren Museum was opened to visitors in 1835 by the famous Paris anatomical researcher, who collected diseased and deformed fetuses, including human bones and internal organs.

The collection is truly terrifying, with a total of 6,000 specimens, including jars of liquid containing deformed human body parts, conjoined twins and newborns with internal organs. There are wax models of human heads, with strange cysts, frog teeth and other terrifying birth defects. It is impossible not to mention the glass jars containing a liquid with human brains placed upside down inside. This museum not only shocks but also affects your mood, no matter how resilient you are.

Musee Dupuytren – Paris, France Musee Dupuytren – Paris, France

6. Lombroso Museum of Crime and Anthropology – Turin, Italy.

More than 400 human skulls are on display at the Italian Museum of Anthropology, opened in 1898 by the criminal investigator Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso was addicted to the idea that criminal behaviour and the shape of the skull were linked. He collected corpses and cut their skulls open, using the skulls of soldiers, civilians, criminals and the insane.

Its collection ranges from bones, brains, surgical images, ancient instruments, and weapons used in real crimes. Moreover, Lombroso’s own head is also kept in a separate display case in this museum. It is truly a horror and makes this museum as scary as possible.

Lombroso Museum of Crime and Anthropology – Turin, Italy. Lombroso Museum of Crime and Anthropology – Turin, Italy.

7. Mutter Museum – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (US)

The Mutter Museum collects artifacts about deformities, opened to terrify visitors in 1858. This place displays real brains of murderers and people with epilepsy. The painting shows skulls showing how their owner died, as well as the bodies of the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng, and the livers they shared in life. There is also the skeleton of a giant man 7 feet 6 tall, which makes many people shudder.

Like the Paris Museum, there are glass jars containing floating alien-like bodies, along with horribly deformed victims. Brace yourself when you see the 9-metre-long colon with intact faeces as it was removed from the body of the actor from The Big Balloon.

Mutter Museum – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (US)

8. Meguro Parasite Museum – Meguro, Japan

Everyone has their own fears. While torture devices and skeletons may scare many people, sometimes it is the small objects close to us that scare us the most. The trip to visit the parasite museum in Japan will take you into a world of horror, making you panic and worry about everything around you. Parasites can enter from anywhere, from food, water to even when you are walking and breathing… There is no place to avoid them.

This museum opened in 1953 and is the only place in the world dedicated to these nasty parasitic creatures. With over 45,000 specimens in the collection, the museum only displays about 300 at a time. Take a look at the jars containing the scariest insects, worms and reptiles and realise that they can invade your body at any moment – not pretty. Watch a real-life image of an 8.8-metre-long tapeworm retreating from a human body, or see animals ravaged by parasites, such as a turtle whose tongue has been replaced by parasites. The most gruesome is the image of a man’s penis invaded by parasites, which reaches all the way to his feet and swells to almost the size of his body. Images you never want to see in real life.

Meguro Parasite Museum – Meguro, Japan

Meguro Parasite Museum – Meguro, Japan

9. Museum of Divine Torture – San Gimignano, Italy

Are you curious to know why the Middle Ages was the darkest period in human history? Get ready to explore the brutality of medieval humanity and learn how brutally they applied “justice” and punished their fellow citizens. The Museum of Medieval Torture in San Gimignano, Italy, holds a collection of over 100 horrific devices that inflict pain on people.

The museum is located within the dungeon of the 13th century Devil’s Tower, you can almost hear the painful moans of the ancient souls as you walk through the narrow corridors, watching the guillotines in operation, brutal devices to stretch or compress the victim’s body, and the gruesome ‘Spanish Spider’ which was used to tear off the breasts of adulterous wives, and the ‘heroic fork’ is made of sharp thorns and placed under the victim’s chin to prevent them from collapsing in their sleep.

You will also witness the terrifying Nuremberg Maiden Box, a coffin-like device with a spring-loaded door filled with sharp blades that would pierce the victim’s body upon opening or closing. This museum not only represents the dark period of the Middle Ages, but is also a harrowing testament to the endless black holes in the human soul.

Museum of Divine Torture – San Gimignano, Italy

Museum of Divine Torture – San Gimignano, Italy

10. Mysterious Capuchin Family Cemetery – Palermo, Italy

 

One of the most unique and gruesome burial sites in Palermo, Italy, is the underground crypt of a monastery with a history dating back to the 16th century. This place is where the mummies of over 8,000 people from the 17th to the 19th centuries are housed. They are displayed, hanging on the walls in an underground labyrinth, as if they were still living peacefully as in ancient times. Although time has worn them down, the mummies still look the best of their lives.

Notes in the will indicate a desire to change costumes in stages, making the space eerie. With their mouths open and their eyes vacant, these mummies seem to challenge those brave enough to enter the catacombs. The mummies are arranged according to class and condition as they were during their lifetime, with men and women, children and adults divided, as well as priests, monks, teachers and even virgins in separate places. If you are brave enough, setting foot in this crypt will send shivers down your spine.

The Mysterious Cemetery of the Capuchin Family – Palermo, Italy

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