1.The Catacombs Of The Capuchins
As the name suggests, this museum in Palermo, In Sicily, is a graveyard turned museum where the strong-hearted can go and spend the day with the dead. The place houses more than 8,000 bodies with the earliest one being the body of a monk mummified in 1599, which has since decayed to the bone. It was initially a cemetery for the Capuchin Ian monks only, but it was later opened to the public who could afford it hence the variety of bodies spanning four centuries.
The youngest corpse is that of a two-year-old girl Roselia Lombardo which has been preserved in perfect shape and looks like a sleeping girl who could open her eyes at any moment. The preservation methods for the centuries-old bodies are mysterious. As you walk through, each body seems to tell a story of its own. Some still have skin, hair, and moustaches, while others are bare skulls still hanging off the walls and in glass boxes as they were interred. The whole experience needs a strong stomach and probably a friend to hold your arm as you cross the valley of death.
2.The Mutter Museum
The Mutter Institute Of Medical Research is the pride of Philadelphia, and the Mutter Museum may just be America’s best-resourced but scariest medical museum. As you walk into the museum, you notice a cabinet lined with human skulls of various ages and sizes labelled with the cause of death. The entire museum is full of what everyone would call gory artefacts, including the preserved skeleton of a dwarf mother and her baby who died during childbirth. The Wax-modelled face of Madame Dimanche with a strange horn growing out of her skull and a piece of Albert Einstein’s brain all line up the museum’s shelves.