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Top 10 Scariest Museums in the World

People often go to museums to learn, admire beauty or remember history. However, the 10 museums below seem to bring heart attacks and nightmares to people. These museums all display things that often appear in horror movies, the only difference is that they are all "real". If you are really brave and not a weak-hearted person, visit these museums to train your nerves of steel.

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

Featuring the largest collection of art created by serial killers, this Los Angeles museum of death will make even the bravest of us stand on end.

Gruesome crime scene photos and autopsies will make your stomach churn. The most gruesome car accidents will make you never want to drive again. There are also rooms filled with funeral supplies and embalming equipment, photos of how they were performed, a graphic exhibition highlighting different murders, and a room devoted entirely to suicides. If you’re still not “moved” after seeing all that, check out the museum’s on-screen video of actual death scenes and the true horror story of the brutal wife-killer Blue Beard of Paris.
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2. The Vent Haven Puppets Museum – Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, USA

The ventriloquist puppets on display here have a very old and flashy look, bringing us back to the old vaudeville acts and carnivals, but if we look closely, they look really scary. In fact, the fact that they are used to tell stories about life and people has been carefully practiced by the artists, but we still can't help but shiver at these "little people". They tell jokes, roll their eyes, and seem to have thoughts like a human. That's why they are included in countless horror movies and stories around the world.

One puppet is scary, just imagine a collection of more than 700 of them, sitting motionless on a glass case and staring at you with empty, lifeless eyes. The Vent Haven Museum is the only place that only exhibits ventriloquist objects and puppets. You can easily find the intricately carved wooden puppets and their outstanding features hanging at the back of the theater. Their eyes are constantly following you throughout the entire tour of the museum, hypnotically inviting you to become their master. Try to stay calm so that you don’t scream and run away from this place!
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3. Museum of the Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico

A truly bizarre and haunting museum found in the town of Guanajuanto, Mexico. 111 mummified bodies of men, women, and children are on display, many with their mouths gaping open in seemingly endless screams as they were burned alive. The bodies were originally buried during a cholera outbreak in 1833. But they were gradually dug up from their final resting places between 1865 and 1958 because their surviving relatives were unable or unwilling to pay the taxes to keep the graves.

Museum of the Mummies – Guanajuato, Mexico grew as tourists paid to see the bodies in a building at the cemetery. While “admiring” this macabre collection, you will see the world’s smallest mummies, the fetus of a pregnant woman who was infected with cholera. The mummies are still wearing the same clothes they were wearing when they were burned alive, some are naked or only wearing shoes or socks. Seeing the poor people after death exposed like this will give you nightmares.
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4. Musee Dupuytren – Paris, France

This incredibly strange and creepy museum is filled with specimens of real-life monsters. The Musee Dupuytren was opened in 1835 by a famous Parisian anatomist who collected diseased and deformed fetuses, skeletons, and human organs.

The collection is gruesome, with 6,000 specimens, including jars of liquid containing deformed human body parts, conjoined twins, and babies with exposed internal organs. There are wax models of human heads, with strange cysts, cleft palates, and other terrifying birth defects. Not to mention the glass jars filled with liquid with human brains floating in them. This museum will both shock and affect your nerves, no matter how hardened you are.
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5. Glore Psychiatric Museum – Joseph Street, Missouri, USA

Stepping into the Glore Psychiatric Museum will give you a sense of danger and extreme caution. The museum opened in 1968 in a mental hospital that was called “State Insane Asylum #2” in 1874.

Gloominess pervades every hallway here. Perhaps it is the screams of the ancient people locked within the four walls, having to endure painful treatments to try to pull the “madness” out of them. Imagine being trapped in a giant treadmill, also known as the “Hollow Wheel”, that forced 18th century patients to run continuously for 48 hours until they were exhausted. Other patients were strapped to the “Sedation Chair,” and bled every six months, because doctors at the time believed that mental disorders were caused by too much blood flowing to the brain, which had to be reduced. Some patients were drowned in buckets of ice water as a therapy to help them regain their senses. There are many, many things you can witness when visiting this creepy museum. Barbaric treatments with psychiatric instruments and equipment, 3D images of madness, and the smiling faces of mannequins. There are also works of art created by patients themselves, and countless objects taken out of the stomach of a mental patient: 453 nails, 105 hairpins, 115 safety pins, and all kinds of nails, screws, buttons, sewing needles, fishing lures, etc. When you witness all of this, you will feel so lucky to be born with a completely normal mind.
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6. Mutter Museum - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (USA)

The Mutter Museum, a collection of specimens of pathological deformities, opened to the horror of visitors in 1858. It displays real brains of murderers and epileptics, a wall of skulls showing how their owners died, the plaster casts of the famous Siamese conjoined twins Chang and Eng and the liver they shared throughout their lives, and the skeleton of a 7-foot-6 giant man, which has given countless visitors goosebumps.

Like the Musee in Paris, there are glass jars containing floating bodies that at first glance look exactly like aliens, along with horrifyingly deformed victims. Then try not to vomit at the museum when you see the 30-foot-long colon that was still intact when it was removed from the body of its owner, an actor who goes by the stage name The Great Balloon.
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7. Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology_ Turin, Italy.

Over 400 human skulls are curated at the Italian Museum of Criminal Anthropology, opened in 1898 by criminal physiognomist Cesare Lombroso. Lombroso was obsessed with the idea that deviant behavior and criminal tendencies were tied to the shape and size of each skull. He collected bodies and cut off their heads, using the skulls of soldiers, civilians, criminals, and madmen.

His collection includes life-size skeletons, brains, photographs of dissections, ancient tools, and weapons used in actual crimes. In addition, Lombroso’s own head is preserved in its own glass case at this museum. He is truly a creepy person, and it makes this museum as creepy as it gets.
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8. Medieval Torture Museum - San Gimignano, Italy


Are you curious about why the Middle Ages are considered the darkest period in human history? Get ready to explore the brutality of medieval humanity and see how they branded “justice” and punished people in a brutal way. The Medieval Torture Museum in San Gimignano, Italy has a collection of more than 100 horrifying devices that caused pain to people.

Housed in the dungeons of the 13th-century Devil’s Tower, you can almost hear the tortured groans of the souls of the past as you walk through the narrow corridors and see the guillotines at work, the brutal instruments used to stretch and squeeze the bodies of victims, the horrifying “Spanish Spider” that was used to rip the breasts of adulterous wives, and the “hero’s fork” made of sharp spikes, placed under the victim’s chin to keep him from falling asleep.

You can also see the terrifying Maiden of Nuremberg, a coffin-like thing with a spring-loaded door filled with sharp blades that would impale the victim’s body as it opened and closed. This museum not only shows the dark ages of the Middle Ages, but also bears heartbreaking testimony to the bottomless pits of human nature.
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9. Meguro Parasitological Museum – Meguro, Japan

Everyone has different fears. While torture devices and skeletons can scare most people, sometimes the scariest things are the little things right next to us. A visit to the Parasitological Museum in Japan will make you extremely panic and afraid of everything around you. Parasites can invade you through seemingly harmless ways: food, water, even just walking and breathing... There is nowhere to run away from them.

This museum opened in 1953 and is the only place in the world dedicated to these pesky parasites. With over 45,000 specimens in its collection, the museum only displays about 300 at a time. Looking at jars filled with the most horrifying bugs, worms, and reptiles and realizing that they could invade your body at any moment is not fun. See real-life images of an 8.8 meter long tapeworm removed from a human body, see the corpses of animals ravaged by parasitic invasions, such as a turtle whose tongue was replaced by a parasite. Most horrifying of all, a man’s penis was invaded by parasites, reaching down to his ankles and swollen almost as big as his torso. These are images you will never see outside.
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10. Capuchin Catacombs – Palermo, Italy

One of the most bizarre and morbid burial sites can be found in Palermo, Italy, beneath a 16th-century monastery cemetery. The Capuchin Catacombs are actually a collection of over 8,000 mummified bodies of people who died between the 17th and 19th centuries. The bodies are displayed, hanging on the walls of an underground maze – as if they were still living quietly and silently as they did centuries ago. Although dusty and faded, they are still wearing the best clothes they ever wore.

Many of their wills and testaments state that they wanted to change their clothes periodically, and the idea is downright creepy. The mummies, with their mouths gaping and their eye sockets empty, seem to challenge anyone who dares to enter their catacombs. Here the corpses are divided by class and status as they were when they were alive, with the men separated from the women and children, while priests, monks, professors and even virgins all have their own places. The hairs on the back of your neck are guaranteed to stand on end if you dare to step foot in this catacomb.
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