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Museum of Torture

The Museum: Visitors here are transported back 500-plus years, to a time when the governing bodies used extreme methods to inflict pain and/or death on those who had broken the law. The dim lighting adds to the eerie feeling created by the medieval torture and punishment devices.

The Exhibits: What torture museum would be complete without a guillotine? Perhaps more terrifying, though, are "The Inquisition Chair,” covered in spikes and straps, and “The Skull Cracker,” a vice-like tool that delivered what it promised.

Admission: Adults: $7; Children: $3.50

Daily 10 a.m.–11 p.m.

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From Travel + Leisure , OCT 2008

The dim lighting adds to the eerie feeling...MORE>>

– Joshua Pramis The World’s Strangest Museums

Last updated October 2008