One of Chicago’s newer museums is also its most frightening. It’s the museum of Medieval Torture, located just North of the loop. It displays a wide variety of torture equipment used in the Middle Ages. For example, an upright metal cylinder large enough for a person to stand inside. The inside walls are barbed with spikes. A person can stand upright inside comfortably, but any time they try to lean or rest against one of the sides they are stabbed.