As the list of ghoulish museums gets longer, I can't leave out the "catacombs" of El Covento de San Francisco in Lima, Peru. This is a historic church (still functioning as a church and convent), but they have a small museum upstairs (street level) with some beautiful artifacts from the time of the conquest, and in the basement what they call the catacombs--an enormous collection of skeletal remains, many artfully arranged in pleasing geometric patterns. When I was there years ago, tours were only available in Spanish, but it was a very good tour, and tastefully handled. I have since seen images of the bones in the catacombs on several television shows dealing with Latin America, religion, etc. Just a short walk away from San Francisco, you can visit the Catedral de Lima and see what is reputed to be the corpse of Pizzaro (not likely, apparently), and a few blocks from there, the museum of the Court of the Inquisition, which does contain a nice set of equipment for torturing people. John Simmons Musuem of Natural History, University of Kansas