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National Museum of Health and Medicine

A Defense Health Agency museum that keeps the actual bullet fired from John Wilkes Booth's Derringer, fragments of Lincoln's skull and hair, and the autopsy surgeon's blood-stained shirt cuff — alongside the sectioned tumor that killed Ulysses S. Grant and 8,000 preserved organs from the museum's Civil War-era anatomical collections.

The move: Walk the free galleries together, compare notes on the Lincoln assassination relics case by case, then argue over coffee afterward about which specimen was creepiest.

• 📍 Silver Spring, MD
• 💸 $$
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Hours: Added 2026-07-19 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Further reading: Official site · Wikipedia

last checked: 2026-07-19