Operated by Italy's federal Prison Administration, this unique collection of prisons, torture, and criminal anthropology was open only to government officials from its founding in 1931 until 1994.... »

Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by M Rebekah Otto

Founded by famed entrepreneur Pat Croce, the Pirate Soul Museum is the largest and most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world. With 48 individual exhibit areas, the museum... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by Genki

In 1948, only three years after the conclusion of the WWII and in the eve of the cold war, Marshal Tito, the supreme leader of Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia took a sharp political... »

Crime and Punishment | Edited by stanestane

The Counterfeit Goods Museum in Bangkok, Thailand is in a somewhat unconventional location for a museum: the working law office of Tilleke & Gibbins. Guests are greeted by a guide when they step... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by Kalia_K and anhie

Solovki, or Solovetsky Islands as they are officially known are a tiny archipelago hidden in the most remote corner of Europe, in the far north of the continent, in Onega Bay of White Sea. Despite... »

Anomalous Islands, Crime and Punishment, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by stanestane

Talk of your visit to Haw Par Villa with Chinese Singaporeans may raise an eyebrow or two, and will likely lead to a conversation about how they were forced to go there as a child in order to... »

Crime and Punishment, Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues, Rites and Rituals, Purveyors of Curiosities, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Outsider Architecture, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Guy With A Guidebook

The beautiful triangular fortress of Patarei, built for Nicholas I in the early nineteenth century and used in the twentieth as a Soviet prison, is now open to the public as a museum. The former... »

Crime and Punishment | Edited by wythe

The museum includes typical wax figures of famous people, although many of these movie stars, scientists, explorers, villains and world leaders are Australian. Frankenstein, Dracula, and a few... »

Museums and Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by Sam E

When one thinks of Canada, mayhem and murder are not the first things that come to mind. However like any country Canada has is seamy underbelly and the Vancouver Police Museum (formerly Vancouver... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Unique Collections, Crime and Punishment | Edited by jiblite

Skulls, medieval torture devices, bloody gloves, depictions of murder, death masks, and rusty axes - the Kriminalmuseum in Vienna, Austria is not for the faint of heart. The Kriminalmuseum or... »

Crime and Punishment | Edited by michelle