A ranking of the 9 scariest museums in the world! Welcome to the galleries of horror!

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This museum is a true temple of torture, with hundreds of machines and objects of all kinds used in the Middle Ages to force poor people to talk or to punish them. Visiting this place could be a bloodcurdling experience!

2. Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri

This museum that brings together all kinds of objects and puppets is devoted to psychiatry! The collection was begun by a former employee of a psychiatric hospital, George Glore, which is whom the museum is named for! Today the museum has about 10,000 items.

3. Musée Dupuytren in Paris

Founded in 1835 by a professor of medicine, the museum currently includes nearly 6,000 very strange objects with wax pieces, bones, and all sorts of specimens preserved in jars that will make you very uneasy!

4. The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia

This museum contains more than 20,000 examples of ancient medical tools, in addition to bones, specimens placed in jars, and faces in formaldehyde! Originally designed for education in medicine, it is now visited by thousands of people.

5. The Mummy Museum in Guanajuato Mexico

This strange mummy museum features 119 mummified bodies that have been perfectly preserved! These mummies were exhumed from the municipal cemetery in the city of Guanajuato in 1865! They subsequently became accessible to the public in 1894.

6. Cesare Lombroso's Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Italy

This totally unique museum follows the path of studies conducted by criminologist Cesare Lombroso, the first man to look at the make-up of a criminal’s brain. This collection consists of photos, documents, studies on the subject, and writings.

7. Museum of Death in Los Angeles

This museum is dedicated to death and serial killers! It has several rooms with pictures of decapitated heads, autopsies of accident victims, as well as pictures of dead babies!

8. The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Italy

The Capuchin Catacombs are located in Palermo, Sicily and are home to thousands of mummified bodies dating primarily from the 19th century. These catacombs contain more than 8,000 mummies arranged along the walls in various categories – women, men, virgins, monks, children, and professionals.

9. The Vent Haven Museum in Kentucky

This museum has the largest collection of ventriloquist dolls! All these stares fixed upon you could probably make you want to turn around and leave!