Medieval contraptions and torture devices are on view at the new LA museum. (all photos courtesy the Medieval Torture Museum) “The Medieval Torture Museum is meant to feed off the emotions of people ...

The fun things to do in Chicago for adults increasingly include immersive dark tourism attractions that deliver structured engagement rather than passive observation. Within this category, the ...

Humankind has created many wonderful things. Art, literature, the smallpox vaccine and pizza, to name a few. Unfortunately, our propensity for creation does not stop with a masterpiece like the “Mona ...

The comprehensive showcase makes the most of current fascination with primeval anguish — as seen everywhere from 'House of the Dragon' to 'The Northman.' By Gary Baum Senior Writer At the entrance, a ...

If you’re wondering if the Rothenburg Torture Museum, or more correctly the Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum is appropriate for kids, let me tell you about the time I became “that parent.” When we ...

Some may be disturbed, others may be grossed out and a few might find it fascinating, but most visitors to this new museum in Los Angles will have a hard time forgetting all of the unbelievably cruel ...

Chicago has a new museum to add to the roster of its great collection. The Medieval Torture Museum is like nothing ever seen before in Chicago. Visitors can explore the torture chambers of the darkest ...

French philosopher Georges Bataille wrote in his 1949 essay The Cruel Practice Of Art that art "puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us there for a time, [offering] us ravishment ...