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    Museums of Torture

    Grab your BDSM cap and leave your human rights at the door. Dating back to antiquity, people were coming up with ways to torture people. From the Inquisitions to the witch trials and present era torture, the painful methods of mayhem are documented and displayed by museums the world over for your curiosity. Evidenced by spiked iron coffins, racks and tables used to stretch and pull your limbs apart, thumbscrews to crush your thumbs, and other pokes and prods, it is here where you can learn which methods inflicted the most isolated pain, gave up snitches, and which were just too convoluted to end up with anything but accidental death and disaster.