Museum of Mexican Medicine, Mexico City
Housed in an 18th-century palace, the gory Museo de la Medicina Mexicana (Museum of Mexican Medicine) showcases the history of medicine in Mexico, offering some pretty graphic wax replicas and scary-looking medical instruments that are fortunately no longer in use today. With a huge collection of artefacts and displays spread through more than a dozen rooms, the museum is also hugely educational, and provides a fascinating insight into medical methods used in pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico, as well as giving visitors the chance to explore a realistic model of a 19th-century pharmacy.
Museo de la Medicina Mexicana, Centro Històrico, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico +52 01 55 5623 3123