Prague's Museum of Torture

Another of the world’s many testaments of man’s inhumanity to man, you’ll likely get a few chills from this gruesome, three-floor collection of contraptions on Celetná Street very near the Charles Bridge. Among the many horrifying instruments used to punish and extract confessions from the guilty and the innocent alike back in the “good old days”: the Iron Maiden, the Break Knee, the Catalan Garotte, the Staircase of Stretching, a witch-dunking basket, and of course the ever-popular rack.  Wax figures and hair-raising sound effects make this a dandy haunted house of sorts.

Read more in my post The 7 Spookiest Spots of Mysterious Prague.

 

Museum of Torture

 

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