Top 10 Creepiest Museums Around the World

Spook yourself out at these frightening museums.

Creepy Collections - With the upcoming release of The Collection at the end of the month, all things creepy have been filling up our minds. Below, 10 twisted museum collections from around the world that'll spook and intrigue and make you question each founder's sanity. That is if you think you can handle that sort of thing.

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Creepy Collections - With the upcoming release of The Collection at the end of the month, all things creepy have been filling up our minds. Below, 10 twisted museum collections from around the world that'll spook and intrigue and make you question each founder's sanity. That is if you think you can handle that sort of thing.

The Museum of Death, Hollywood, California - The Museum of Death holds the largest collection of artwork created by serial killers. If you can stomach a visit, you'll be treated to videos of autopsies and deaths, photos of Charles Manson crime scenes and execution devices.  (Photo: Museum Of Death)

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The Museum of Death, Hollywood, California - The Museum of Death holds the largest collection of artwork created by serial killers. If you can stomach a visit, you'll be treated to videos of autopsies and deaths, photos of Charles Manson crime scenes and execution devices.  (Photo: Museum Of Death)

Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Mütter Museum is a collection of medical deformities that started in 1858 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter. Inside, you'll find the body of conjoined twins, a baby turned inside out, former President Grover Cleveland's tumor, a nine-foot colon that once contained over 40 pounds of feces and a wall of skulls with descriptions of how each person died.  (Photo: Mutter Museum)

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Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Mütter Museum is a collection of medical deformities that started in 1858 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter. Inside, you'll find the body of conjoined twins, a baby turned inside out, former President Grover Cleveland's tumor, a nine-foot colon that once contained over 40 pounds of feces and a wall of skulls with descriptions of how each person died.  (Photo: Mutter Museum)

The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky - Imagine being alone in a museum entirely dedicated to ventriloquist dummies. The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum, started by a billionaire amateur ventriloquist, holds 750 dolls and is the largest collection in the world. Its most notable acquisitions are four dummies from well-known ventriloquist William Wood.  (Photo: Vent Haven Museum)

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The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky - Imagine being alone in a museum entirely dedicated to ventriloquist dummies. The Vent Haven Ventriloquist Museum, started by a billionaire amateur ventriloquist, holds 750 dolls and is the largest collection in the world. Its most notable acquisitions are four dummies from well-known ventriloquist William Wood.  (Photo: Vent Haven Museum)

John Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal, Stratford, Connecticut - John Zaffis has been collecting objects believed to be possessed by spirits and displaying them for the public in the Museum of the Paranormal. Stories of how each item was possessed and retrieved are enough to make you shiver. Some visitors even say they feel an odd presence as they walk through the rooms.  (Photo: John Zaffis Paranormal Museum)

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John Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal, Stratford, Connecticut - John Zaffis has been collecting objects believed to be possessed by spirits and displaying them for the public in the Museum of the Paranormal. Stories of how each item was possessed and retrieved are enough to make you shiver. Some visitors even say they feel an odd presence as they walk through the rooms.  (Photo: John Zaffis Paranormal Museum)

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Bangkok Forensic Museum, Thailand - Bangkok's Forensic Museum has preserved and displayed the bodies of Thailand's most notorious criminals and serial killers and hosts morbid displays of limbs crushed or blown off by hand grenades, a giant testicle and Siamese twins in jars with their internal organs for show.  (Photo: bangkok.com)

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Bangkok Forensic Museum, Thailand - Bangkok's Forensic Museum has preserved and displayed the bodies of Thailand's most notorious criminals and serial killers and hosts morbid displays of limbs crushed or blown off by hand grenades, a giant testicle and Siamese twins in jars with their internal organs for show.  (Photo: bangkok.com)

El Museo de las Momias, Guanajuato, Mexico - Some liken a walk through the halls of El Museo de las Momias (Museum of the Mummies) to a stroll through an open grave. The preserved bodies of the victims of a 1833 cholera outbreak line the walls of the rooms and were acquired if families couldn't afford to pay a grave tax and bury their loved ones.  (Photo: El Museo de las Momias)

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El Museo de las Momias, Guanajuato, Mexico - Some liken a walk through the halls of El Museo de las Momias (Museum of the Mummies) to a stroll through an open grave. The preserved bodies of the victims of a 1833 cholera outbreak line the walls of the rooms and were acquired if families couldn't afford to pay a grave tax and bury their loved ones.  (Photo: El Museo de las Momias)

Catacombe dei Cappuccini, Palermo, Sicily - More mummies are on display in Sicily's Catacombe dei Cappuccini and have been since the monks of 1599 discovered a new way to embalm their fallen friars. Over the centuries, it became a status symbol to be added to the collection dressed in their finest clothes and the catacombs developed into a "human library" for some really creepy research.  (Photo: comune.palermo)

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Catacombe dei Cappuccini, Palermo, Sicily - More mummies are on display in Sicily's Catacombe dei Cappuccini and have been since the monks of 1599 discovered a new way to embalm their fallen friars. Over the centuries, it became a status symbol to be added to the collection dressed in their finest clothes and the catacombs developed into a "human library" for some really creepy research.  (Photo: comune.palermo)

Voodoo Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana - Located the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter is the Historic Voodoo Museum, a fixture and a “must do” for visitors since 1972. They offer tours that guide you through historic voodoo sights including graveyards, haunted houses, zombie sightings and much more. There’s also the popular “Tour of the Undead” on which you can see an authentic voodoo temple and experience voodoo rituals first-hand.(Photo: Courtesy Sacred Destinations)

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Voodoo Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana - Located the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter is the Historic Voodoo Museum, a fixture and a “must do” for visitors since 1972. They offer tours that guide you through historic voodoo sights including graveyards, haunted houses, zombie sightings and much more. There’s also the popular “Tour of the Undead” on which you can see an authentic voodoo temple and experience voodoo rituals first-hand.(Photo: Courtesy Sacred Destinations)

The Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri - The Glore Psychiatric Museum, which began in the ward of a state asylum, houses art from its previous patients, the inhumane tactics used to treat mental illness (including lobotomy instruments and a locked giant gerbil wheel), and other artifacts. Don't miss the mosaic created from 1,446 nails, screws, safety pins and other items swallowed by a patient and removed from her intestines and stomach.  (Photo: The Glore Psychiatric Museum)

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The Glore Psychiatric Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri - The Glore Psychiatric Museum, which began in the ward of a state asylum, houses art from its previous patients, the inhumane tactics used to treat mental illness (including lobotomy instruments and a locked giant gerbil wheel), and other artifacts. Don't miss the mosaic created from 1,446 nails, screws, safety pins and other items swallowed by a patient and removed from her intestines and stomach.  (Photo: The Glore Psychiatric Museum)

Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, Paris, France - Anatomy expert and artist Honoré Fragonard created "ecorchés," figures of human and animal bodies with their skins flayed away from the cadavers. His most famous piece on display is "The Horseman of the Apocaplypse" based on a print by Albrecht Durer that consists of a man riding a horse, both flayed, surrounded by human fetuses riding sheep and horse fetuses.  (Photo: Musée Fragonart d'Allfort)

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Musée Fragonard d'Alfort, Paris, France - Anatomy expert and artist Honoré Fragonard created "ecorchés," figures of human and animal bodies with their skins flayed away from the cadavers. His most famous piece on display is "The Horseman of the Apocaplypse" based on a print by Albrecht Durer that consists of a man riding a horse, both flayed, surrounded by human fetuses riding sheep and horse fetuses.  (Photo: Musée Fragonart d'Allfort)