In the world there are museums dedicated to art, science, history, sex, all kinds of inspiring or shocking subjects.
But there is an institution that, to the depths of the soul, will frighten every person and this is perhaps one of the most terrible places on the planet - the Museum of Death.
Strangely enough, it did not sound, but one day JD Haley and Katie Schultz decided to link their lives with death. The desire to create such an unusual museum these two have explained by the fact that it is time for a person to learn to value his life. And this will not work for 100%, if you do not look beyond the existence. So, the original death museum was opened in 1995 in San Diego, California. Now you will be shocked to find out in which room this couple opened the museum. It turns out that earlier the building belonged to the famous bailiff Wyatt Erp, who killed prisoners. And in 1995 there was a morgue.
After 5 years, the museum moved to Los Angeles on Hollywood Boulevard. Today it is one of the most famous museums in the world, where hundreds of thousands of tourists come annually.
What can you see here? So, a collection of funeral paraphernalia is just the tip of a horrific iceberg. Moreover, if you are already scared of tools for embalming, to open the body - then, you better not read. Oh, yes, if now you simultaneously chew a fragrant croissant, you better put it away.
So, here's a list of museum exhibits:
- a rather large collection of real photographs depicting the moment of execution;
- results of road accidents;
- the interior is not the cleanest in the world of morgues;
- pictures of crimes of maniacs and serial killers (fans of Dexter will be delighted), among which you can see photos of the massacres of the famous American criminal Charles Manson;
- the reconstruction of a cult suicide called "The Celestial Gate", which occurred in 1997;
- photographs from the morgue, which depicts the dismembered body of a young girl Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia (her murder was one of the most mysterious crimes committed in the US);
- "Tanatron" or "The Machine of Death," an apparatus for euthanasia created by Jack Kevorkian ("Doctor Death");
- cut off on the guillotine head of the serial killer "Blue Beard" or Henri Landry.
In this case, the museum is divided into several rooms. In some you can see children's coffins of different eras, and in others - letters, illustrations, formerly belonging to bloody serial killers.
In the Museum of Death, episodes in the morgue, autopsy processes are often photographed. It was also filmed a horrific video (not nervous to watch) under the title "Faces of Death" (1993), as well as a video of The Heaven's Gate Cult (2008).
Near the museum there is a souvenir shop in which every visitor can purchase for his memory T-shirts, windbreakers, magnets, bags, wallets with the museum's symbols. Also, many people come here to buy the "Serial Killer" desktop game, where one of the players is a killer, and all the others are his victims.