Liputan6.com, Amsterdam - Dark corridors greeted behind doors, followed by small, dimly lit rooms displaying torture tools and horrific execution scenes in the past.
Wood floors creaking kriet ... kriet add to the horror impression at the Torture Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Colorful multicolored; red, yellow, blue highlighted to a number of execution instruments. There is a full-sided needle or seat 'Inquisition Chair' with iron-iron sticking sharp.
There's also Skullcracker, The Saw, Garotte, Thumb Screw, Judas Cradle, and The Rack - torture tools that are too sadistic to tell how it works.
Guillotine, the type of execution tool that ended the lives of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette in 1793, was on display.
Not many know, the use of guillotine in the execution of death in France was officially only removed in 1981. History records, Tunisian man, Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to be executed with a giant knife. He was executed on September 10, 1977.
There are about 40 execution tools on display at the Torture Museum, complete with illustrations of use and historical background information in eight languages, including English, Dutch, French, German and Spanish.
However, it is not easy to read brochures on display with dimly lit lighting. The letters were small. Meanwhile, there is no audio and video equipment in the museum - not even musical accompaniment.
A network of canals splitting the city, old buildings that have a long history, poor tram across the street, the bikes that dominate the transport system - Amsterdam is a unique destination.
In addition to the tour down the canal, the museum is also a favorite tourist destination.
There are about 75 museums in the Dutch capital, which are able to attract about 7 million visitors each year.
Torture Museum belongs to the category of 'small museum'. Similarly, the museum that bears the word 'sex, erotic, and hash' in his name.
On the other hand, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Anne Frank House, and the Stedelijk Museum become top choices for tourists.
However, so popular, the queue of visitors often snaking in the museums. Jaime de Silva, Senior Public Manager of APAC-Booking.com says, there is a way for travelers to cut the length of the queue.
That is, by utilizing the Booking Experiences in the Booking.com application. The facility can be used after the tourists booked the hotel or accommodation through the site.
"For example at Anne Frank House, the queue there can even be up to 3 hours," de Silva said.
Booking.com Experiences allows travelers to book whatever they need on vacation in one place, from museum tickets to walking tours.
How it works, after booking accommodation on Booking.com, users can open local attractions and attractions with special discounts or additional benefits such as by passing the queue.
Users can scan QR code linked to credit card, which can be used in selected tourist destinations.
Such a way can prevent tourists from the risk of money lost from tickets that have been paid in advance but not had time to use on a predetermined date.