Rome has a museum entirely dedicated to souls in purgatory, tucked away in the back of a small church near the Tiber River and featuring Bibles and clothing supposedly scorched by the handprints of restless ghosts.

A closer look

Rome has a museum entirely dedicated to souls in purgatory, tucked away in the back of a small church near the Tiber River and featuring Bibles and clothing supposedly scorched by the handprints of restless ghosts. It is a deeply unsettling collection of religious artifacts that most tourists completely miss while they are busy elbowing each other for a blurry photo of the Trevi Fountain. It really makes you appreciate the dramatic flair of medieval Catholicism, which essentially invented the concept of an interactive haunted house just to convince peasants to donate more money to the church in order to save their dead relatives from eternal fiery torment