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Church of St. George, Czech Republic

The church in the Czech village of Lukova has been abandoned since 1968, when part of its roof collapsed during a funeral ceremony. Artist Jakub Hadrava populated the church with ghost sculptures, giving it a particularly sinister look.

Hashima Island, Japan.

Hasima is a former coal miner's settlement founded in 1887. It was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with coastline about a kilometer its population in 1959 was 5259 people. When coal became unprofitable to mine here, the mine was closed and the island city added itself to the list of ghost towns. It happened in 1974.

Hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines

On the island of Luzon in the village of Sagada is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. There is a belief among the indigenous population that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany

Old Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

Processions in this cemetery took place for almost four centuries (from 1439 to 1787). More than 100 thousand dead are buried on a relatively small plot of land, and the number of tombstones reaches 12,000.
cemetery workers covered the burials with earth, and new tombstones were erected in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 grave tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the sagging earth opened the eyes of the living to the old tombstones, which began to shift the later ones. The view turned out not only unusual, but also creepy.

Island of abandoned dolls, Mexico

There is a very strange abandoned island in Mexico, most of which is inhabited by scary dolls. It is said that in 1950, a certain hermit Julian Santana Barrera began to collect and hang dolls from wastebaskets, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.

Chapel of Bones, Portugal

The chapel was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk. The chapel itself is small - only 18.6 meters long and 11 meters wide, but the bones and skulls of five thousand monks are kept here. On the roof of the chapel is the phrase "Melior est die mortis die nativitatis" ("Better the day of death than the day of birth").

Suicide Forest, Japan

Suicide Forest is the informal name for the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located on the island of Honshu in Japan and famous for its frequent suicides. Initially, the forest was associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally represented as the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (the championship at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to settle accounts with life. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and about your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us at 22-0110."

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione made an art object from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He portrayed the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients roam the former hospital.

Catacombs in Paris, France

Catacombs - a network of winding underground tunnels and caves under Paris. The total length, according to various sources, is from 187 to 300 kilometers. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost 6 million people have been buried in the catacombs.

City of Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

Due to the underground fire that broke out 50 years ago, which continues to burn to this day, the population has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). The population of Centralia is now considered the smallest in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia served as the prototype for the creation of the city in the Silent Hill series of games and in the film based on this game.

Akodesseva Magic Market, Togo

The market of magic items and magical herbs Akodesseva is located right in the center of the city of Lome, the capital of the state of Togo in Africa. The Africans of Togo, Ghana and Nigeria still profess the voodoo religion and believe in the miraculous properties of dolls. The fetish assortment of Akodesseva is extremely exotic: here you can buy the skulls of cattle, the dried heads of monkeys, buffaloes and leopards, and many other equally “wonderful” things.

Plague Island, Italy

Poveglia is one of the most famous islands in the Venetian lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times, the island has been used as a place of exile for plague patients, in connection with which up to 160,000 people were buried on it. The souls of many of the dead have allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now full. The island's dismal reputation is exacerbated by tales of horrific experiments allegedly subjected to patients in a psychiatric clinic. In this regard, paranormal researchers call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The Hill of Crosses is a hill on which many Lithuanian crosses are installed, their total number is approximately 50 thousand. Despite the resemblance, it is not a cemetery. According to popular belief, the one who leaves the cross on the Mountain will be lucky. Neither the time of the appearance of the Hill of Crosses, nor the reasons for its occurrence can be said with accuracy. To this day, this place is shrouded in secrets and legends.

Cabayan burials, Philippines

The famous fire mummies of Kabayan dating back to 1200-1500 AD are buried here, as well as, as the locals believe, their spirits. They were made using a complex mummification process, and are now carefully guarded, as cases of their theft are not uncommon. Why? As one of the robbers said, “he had the right to do so,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Overtown Bridge, Scotland

The old arch bridge is located near the Scottish village of Milton. In the middle of the 20th century, strange things began to happen on it: dozens of dogs suddenly rushed from a 15-meter height, fell on stones and broke to death. Those that survived returned and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real "killer" of four-legged animals.

Aktun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize

Aktun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. It is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. It is located on the territory of the Tapira Mountain Natural Park. One of the halls of the cave is the so-called cathedral, where the Mayans performed sacrifices, as they considered this place to be the Xibalba - the entrance to the underworld.

Leap Castle, Ireland

Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the world's cursed castles. Its dark attraction is a large underground dungeon, the bottom of which is studded with sharp stakes. The dungeon was discovered during the restoration of the castle. In order to take out all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 wagons. Locals say that the castle is inhabited by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.

Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru

Chauchilla Cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the deserted Nazca plateau, on the south coast of Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 1920s. According to researchers, bodies were found in the cemetery, which are about 700 years old, and the last burials were carried out here in the 9th century. Chauchilla differs from other burial sites in the special way in which people were buried. All the bodies are "squatting", and their "faces" seem to be frozen in a wide smile. The bodies are perfectly preserved thanks to Peru's dry desert climate.

Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia

The most infamous feature of Carthaginian religion was the sacrifice of children, mostly infants. It was forbidden to cry during the sacrifice, as it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a place where several rows of urns were found with the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was called Tophet

Snake Island, Brazil

Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands of our planet. On it there is only a forest, a rocky inhospitable coast up to 200 meters high and snakes. There are up to six snakes per square meter of the island. The poison of these reptiles acts instantly. The Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting this island, and locals tell chilling stories about it.

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

The largest monument in Bulgaria, located on Mount Buzludzha with a height of 1441 meters, was built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Its construction took almost 7 years and involved more than 6 thousand workers and experts. The interior was partly finished in marble, and the stairs were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the memorial house has been completely looted, leaving only a concrete frame with reinforcement, similar to a destroyed alien ship.

City of the Dead, Russia

Dargavs in North Ossetia looks like a pretty village with small stone houses, but in fact it is an ancient necropolis. In crypts of various types, people were buried along with all their clothes and personal belongings.

Unfinished subway in Cincinnati, USA

Abandoned subway depot in Cincinnati - project built in 1884. But after the First World War and as a result of changing demographics, the need for the subway disappeared. Construction slowed down in 1925, half of the 16 km line was completed. There are now guided tours of the abandoned subway twice a year, but many people have been known to roam its tunnels alone.

There are many beautiful things on earth beautiful places worth visiting while the eyes see and the feet walk. And there are about the same number of corners, nooks and crannies and objects that a good person should bypass on the tenth road. It is doubly terrible that tickets and vouchers to many of the most terrible places on the planet are officially sold by travel companies and museum administrations. Choosing direction unusual trip, do not risk ruining your holiday bliss by visiting at least one of them, even if you got a ticket last minute and at half price.

1. Top of Mount Washington

It can be very beautiful here, but being on Mount Washington, in the northeast of the United States, is very scary. The height of the peak is only 1917 meters, but its top is almost more dangerous for the visitor than the highest point of Everest.

Mount Washington holds the world wind speed record on the earth's surface. In April 1934, the air masses on top of Washington reached a speed of 372 km/h. In winter, such winds mean snow storms, which picturesquely swept the complex of buildings of the observatory with doors and windows tightly sealed at this time of the year. The buildings and instruments of the extreme weather station are able to withstand wind gusts of up to 500 kilometers per hour, and this is possible here.

The winter wonderland of Mount Washington is deadly for the casual hiker and the willful nature photographer. And insanely desirable for someone who "ordered" suicide by blowing hurricane wind into a prickly ice drift.

2. Poisonous beauty of the Danakil desert

We understand - leisure, new impressions, but not so much! we told friends packing for a vacation in the Ethiopian desert, but they did not listen to us.

The Danakil Desert in northern Ethiopia is called “Hell on Earth” by everyone who has been there. Risk and horror lovers listen to the storytellers, look at the pictures and one by one go on a deadly trip through one of the most terrible and strange landscapes on the planet.

Once you walk on the cosmic surface of Danakil - and you don’t need to fly to Mars. There is almost no oxygen to breathe over the volcanic wasteland, but there is enough burning air for everyone and everything, saturated with fetid gases, born from the earth boiling under their feet and melting stones.

Traveling through the Danakil desert is at least unhealthy. Fifty-degree heat, the risk of stepping on an awakening volcano, yawning with scarlet lava, and boiling, the risk of inhaling sulfur vapor for the rest of your life and making it short. In addition, in the Afar region, semi-savage tribes of Ethiopian citizens periodically go on the warpath for water and food. Ten-year-old boys with guns and machine guns can become another of the world's scariest surprises awaiting a traveler in a place of unearthly beauty - the Danakil African desert.

3. The capital of the grandchildren of the cannibals

The main city of eastern New Guinea, the gate of the state that calls itself "Nujini", the city of Port Moresby is the most dangerous of the world's capitals. From the sea, from the sky, the New Guinean "pearl" looks quite attractive:

In fact, she is like this:

In Port Moresby, such helmsmen of the "banana republic" as the president and ministers live and work, and bandit brigades control the real life of the city. For a white man, the capital of PNG is a terrible place. It's the same as to please an intellectual in prison with youngsters.

Papuans in the forest kill strangers for food, and this is due to the lack of protein in their traditional diet. Papuans in the city “wet” tourists because of laziness and unemployment. Spoiled by Australian handouts, the natives do not want to work, and if they do, it is very difficult to find a job. There is only one thing left - to go into a gang and raise funds for booze, drugs and girls, hunting for suckers. Kill in Port Moresby 3 times more often than in Moscow. The police do not care for these boys, because they are bought or intimidated. Look at their faces and never again dream of becoming a second Miklouho-Maclay, because they will eat you like Cook.

Every person burdened with housekeeping has dark corners not only in his biography, but also in his home. This is not necessarily a closet with instructive spiders to intimidate Pinocchio. In a dark corner, for example, there may be a stash - something valuable, which, unlike a person, is not afraid of darkness. There are such mega-angles in every country on every continent. No culture can live without cursed places. The scariest places on the planet compete in intensity of quiet horror, like economies, brands, or football leagues. The most terrible places attract guests - from among the philistines who are used to seeing horrors on TV. It would be boring to live without such corners of the Earth. Like in an apartment without dark corners.

4. Forest of cultural suicides

Aokigahara is an old forest at the foot of sacred mountain Fuji. People come here not for mushrooms, not for barbecues, but to say goodbye to life. For some time now, Aokigahara has been fondly chosen by authentic Japanese suicides.

An approximate count of those who have gone into the forest forever has been conducted since the beginning of the 1950s. For half a century, Aokigahara accepted the bodies and, for a time, the souls of more than 500 volunteers. They say that the fashion came after the publication of Seiko Matsumoto's book "The Black Sea of ​​Trees", whose two characters, holding hands, went to hang themselves in this venerable forest, so mastered by shadows that even on a sunny afternoon you can easily find a terrible place wrapped in damp grave gloom.

Walking through the terrible forest of Aokigahara, the traveler will stumble upon not only corpses, skulls and nooses. And on numerous shields with inscriptions like “Life is a priceless gift! Please think again!” or “Think of your family!”

In the 1970s, the problem attracted national attention, and since then every year government units are sent to clean up the forest from "fresh" corpses. The area of ​​the tract is 35 square kilometers. During the year, from 70 to 100 newly arrived suicides "ripen" on the branches of trees.

A few years ago, marauders appeared in Aokigahara, who clean the pockets of the gallows and rip off not ropes from their necks, but gold and silver chains. They manage not to get lost. Remain humble and optimistic.

5. Beer, glass, skeletons

A cozy, civilized Czech Republic cannot be called a terrible country. Tourists enjoy everything here - delicious beer, affordable drugs, beautiful houses, bridges and girls. And even the most, perhaps, the most terrible place in Western Europe pleases the eye of a tourist, being remembered for a lifetime. This is the famous ossuary in the city of Kutna Hora.

For the inhabitants of medieval Europe, the abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora, was the most fashionable and desirable cemetery. His insane popularity was due to the fact that in 1278 a certain monk brought some earth from Jerusalem, from Golgotha ​​itself, and scattered the holy soil in small handfuls over the local churchyard. Many thousands of people wished to be buried in Sedlec. The cemetery has grown greatly, they began to bury in 2-3 tiers, which is not divine. Therefore, since 1400, an unusual tomb has been operating in the abbey - a warehouse for bones removed from graves that were not cared for.

In 1870, the new, secular owners of the lands and buildings of the old monastery decided to put things in order in the ossuary and invited a local creator, a carver by the name of Rint, to do this. With a deadly sense of humor and taste inherent in true Czechs, Pan Rint created a terrible miracle from the mortal remains of 40 thousand people. He not only ordered the deposits of bones and skulls, but also built from them a massive coat of arms of the master's noble family and a magnificent chandelier with garlands. Memento mori, pani ta panove!

The spooky chapel is open to beer- and Becherovka-intoxicated visitors seven days a week.

6. Museum of horror stories - the dream of a maniac, the pride of doctors

The Mutter Museum of the History of Medicine in Philadelphia is the place where all the worst that can happen to the human body is concentrated. The museum was founded in 1858 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter. Admission to the Sanctuary of Medical Science is $14. The exposition presents all kinds of pathologies, ancient and unusual medical equipment, biological samples of varying degrees of nightmare. It also houses the most impressive collection of American skulls.

Top positions in the Mütter Museum are occupied by such curious exhibits as a wax sculpture of a unicorn woman; a three-meter human intestine, which contained 40 pounds of the same; the body of the "soap lady" (a female corpse that turned into a fat wax in the ground); a tumor removed from US President Cleveland; fused liver of Siamese twins; a piece of the brain of Charles Guiteau - the assassin of President Garfield

Rumor has it that at night something out of the ordinary happens in the museum - either scary or funny.

7. Monkey for the enlightened

Drapchi Tibetan Prison, which is located on the road from Lhasa Airport to Lhasa City, is considered the most terrible penitentiary institution in the world. In Drapchi, the evil Chinese since 1965 meticulously rot the recalcitrant Tibetan lamas. Here, behind the thorn, there are more monks than in any single Buddhist monastery.

The Chinese occupation authorities cynically refer to such prisons as "rehabilitation centers." In Drapchi, you can get a "stray" bullet in the forehead for the wrong look in the direction of the guard. For the slightest protest, convict monks are beaten mercilessly. One of the violators of the regime spent so long in a solitary cell that he forgot how to speak. Another has been languishing in prison for the past 20 years for distributing a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, Chinese Gulag Buddhists are forced to attend classes on scientific communism. If you haven't learned your lesson - hit the chakras with a batog. Did not come to class - try bamboo porridge. Is this prospect scary?

Lyrical digression: wandering around the black Japanese forests with gallows and museums with skulls and intestines, we romantics completely forgot about such the most terrible places on the planet as working torture rooms of the criminal investigation department in the police departments. About places where a small civil war and nano-genocide are played out daily. A holy faith in justice and a neat appearance of chaste eyes saves us, romantics, from visiting such "fear" events. And as for the civil war, I remember that the most terrible, bloody and unusually stupid of them was in Rwanda. A terrible African country, where we will go today.

8. Africa is terrible, yes, yes, yes!

All Soviet children know that a nasty, bad, greedy Barmaley lives in Africa. The concentration of barmaley per square mile of tea plantations exceeds 420 individuals. In 1994, barmaley with a machete decided to reduce their own population by 900 thousand souls. That's what came out of it:

Having learned from the embassy reports about the Rwandan genocide and its consequences, the white man sighed heavily and went to pacify the barmaley. Those of them whose hands were covered in blood were higher than the elbow were sent to prison. Yes, in a difficult one - the most crowded and unsanitary in the world. This incredibly scary place has a lyrical name - Gitarama.

More than 6,000 Rwandan barmaleis languish in barracks designed to hold 500 prisoners, waiting for trial for 8-10 years (!) . They are tormented by hunger, so biting off a cellmate's heel or ear is a normal phenomenon. There is nowhere to lie down, so from constant standing, the prisoners' feet rot, which doctors have to amputate without anesthesia. The floor is damp and filthy, the stink spreading for half a mile, shaming the capital city of Kigali in the eyes of the peacekeepers. Every eighth barmaley dies in this prison, without waiting for the verdict - from violence or disease. And neither God nor the devil forbid a white intelligent person to get into the Guitarama ...

9. Birthplace of a Slumdog Millionaire

What does real India smell like? Incense, marijuana, grilled cremation meat? The real, not pomaded India smells of slop, sewage and waste from chemical industries. This stench is inhaled from morning to evening by benevolent and superstitious consumers of Bollywood film products, residents of the area where renting an “apartment” for a month costs no more than $4. This is Dharavi, Asia's largest nahalstroy, a slum settlement in the heart of charming, multi-million dollar Mumbai.

The protagonist of the film "Slumdog Millionaire" comes from a "city within a city" Dharavi. Over a million Hindus and Muslims live here on 175 hectares of dirty land. Their bread is the processing of urban garbage, which is brought and brought here in tens of tons every day. The inhabitants of the terrible slums are recycling plastic, cans, glass and waste paper. Their barefoot children and wives crawl through Mumbai's dumpsters looking for something to recycle.

By 2013, Mumbai authorities intend to raze Dharavi to the ground. Where to go to the residents, those who did not have time to become millionaires? Return back to the village? It's scary to think about it.

10. Capital of ongoing violence

When the Indian wakes up and goes to collect bottles, the Somali is still sleeping in an embrace with his favorite toy - a Kalashnikov assault rifle. He sleeps lightly, trembling and black drooling - after all, just look, land Somali pirates will come and tear him apart. In the capital of collapsed Somalia, the city of Mogadishu, violence and fear are the norm.

People of the Somali anthropological type are stately and beautiful. They often die young, taking their cruel beauty to a deserted grave. But new, future sea and city robbers are born, who do not disdain anything, just not to show themselves weak and not be left without dinner.

There are cities on our planet, from which frost is tearing at the skin. These are dead cities, abandoned cities, or simply those in which people live, but it would be better for them not to do this. They meet in different countries and on different continents. Some of them were destroyed by the elements, and some by the people themselves.

This city was founded in the 18th century, and before the start of the war, Nagorno-Karabakh flourished and successfully developed. The last Soviet census, conducted in 1989, took into account 28 thousand inhabitants. Schools and colleges worked in Agdam, there was a drama theater; wine, dairy products, canned food were produced here; there was also a tool factory. The city was connected with the rest of the territory of the republic and the USSR by a railway.

Then, in 1991, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict began. The Azerbaijani army in 1992-1993 used the city as a place for the deployment of artillery. Stepanakert was shelled from here. Naturally, the Armenians did not remain in debt, and in 1993 the Armenian army stormed Aghdam in order to suppress enemy artillery.

As a result of several assault attempts, it became impossible to live in the city. It is literally destroyed to the ground; the only intact building is a mosque (but apparently Allah did not want to intercede for the inhabitants). Now there are no people in Aghdam, the ruins of the city are overgrown with wild pomegranate trees. Residents of nearby villages sometimes visit the dead city in search of materials suitable for home building. This is now the entire economy of Aghdam.

In 1841, a tavern named "Bull's Head" was founded. Soon a settlement was formed around it, and in 1854 it was already considered a town. The city grew, schools, hospitals, a post office, shops and even a theater appeared in it. At first, the city was called Centerville, later it was called Centralia.

The main occupation of the working population was coal mining - Pennsylvania is famous for its mines. Coal destroyed the city. In 1962, during a fire at a landfill near the city, a fire broke out in a mine where anthracite was mined. The fire slowly but surely spread through the coal seams. The ground cracked, and suffocating smoke rose from the cracks. The fire has yet to be extinguished.

Soon, residents began to leave the city, fearing for their lives and health. Central is empty. In the abandoned smoky city, hardly a dozen people now live.

The town was built to accommodate workers who worked in the oil fields. Gradually, in addition to the oil workers-shift workers, many people settled in it. The city developed rapidly, high salaries attracted more and more new residents to it. Everyone found a good job, and the prospects for Neftegorsk seemed bright.

It all ended in 1955, when on May 25 the city was rocked by a 10-point earthquake. Only a few buildings remained from the entire city, more than 2,000 people died under the ruins.

The city was never rebuilt. In its place stands only a huge obelisk in memory of the dead.

This city on the northern coast of Taiwan was built as an ultra-modern resort. It was distinguished by the most original architecture; American officers were preparing to move into houses that looked like plates. But financial problems piled on investors, and the project was frozen in 1980. A few years later, an attempt was made to revive him. Construction began on a swanky hotel and marina in Sanji, but work was soon abandoned.

During the entire period of construction, the company was plagued by strange setbacks. Employees died in an incomprehensible way. A few sightseers hurried to leave, saying that they were uncomfortable in Sanji. In the end, the project was abandoned completely, and Taiwanese homeless people settled in the empty city. But they didn't settle down here either. Those who “changed their place of residence” in time said that the dead were wandering around the city and people were disappearing there. Information about the disappearance of the curious, who decided to seek adventure in the dead city, appears regularly.

The city lasted only 16 years (1970-1986). The basis of its population were specialists who served the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Life in Pripyat was excellent, the city was modern, with good infrastructure, people received high salaries.

Then there was an accident at a nuclear power plant. Within a few days, the city was completely evacuated. People left in a terrible hurry: the first marauders who climbed into the abandoned city found scattered toys in kindergartens, plates with leftover food on tables from apartments, and unsolved problems on boards in schools.

Now from Pripyat, these same marauders have taken out everything that is possible: fittings, valuable household items, even doors and frames. Mature birch trees sprouted through the asphalt. Rusty swings creak in the yards funerally.

There are now excursions to Pripyat - there are people who find it amusing to look at Apocalypse Now.

The worst thing about this city is that people live in it. Dharavi is part of Mumbai, a huge city of slums. There are similar areas in many cities in Asia and South America, but Dharavi is the largest. The impoverished poor and simply dubious elements live here. Housing here is served by tiny huts built from all sorts of rubbish, packing boxes, boxes. Many do not have this and just spend the night on the street. As a result, at night, Dharavi looks like a battlefield, strewn with motionless bodies.

The local inhabitants have no work, they do not receive any help, they eat whatever they can. Water is also a huge problem. It is almost impossible to find a toilet in the modern sense; the population uses the river flowing through the city as this.

And even worse is the fact that children are born in this nightmare. Although the situation when three generations of a family live in a booth the size of half a modest garage is considered very fortunate here, some children still manage to survive. In the future, they will contribute to the further growth of the city, built up with living boxes from soda.

Creepy places are sure to be found all over the world.

It is even likely that most of us live near or near one of them.

This list features 10 creepy places.

They became such either because they just look like that, or because of their connection with the dark side of life.

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10. Manchak swamp

Ghosts, mass graves, alligators, and terrifying looking trees.

All this is present in abundance in a terrible swamp located in American Louisiana.

The photographs depict all the horror of New Orleans and its environs.

9. Cane Hill Hospital

Cane Hill was a lunatic asylum in Croydon, London. It was in operation until 1991, when, apparently, all the patients simply left it.

Some patients have been transferred to other safe places.

However, the hospital itself still exists, and most of the medical devices and devices are present there.

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8. Ruins of Bangar

Bangar (Bhangarh) is an abandoned city in Rajasthan, India. The city was erected in honor of the prince in memory of his military achievements.

The city is said to be the most haunted city in the country. It was created in 1573, but due to a supposed curse, it was eventually abandoned by all the inhabitants in 1783.

This place is inhabited by such a huge number of ghosts that access to it is closed after sunset and before sunrise.

7. Centralia

In 1962, in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a group of firefighters in an abandoned mine set fire to trash to clean up the city.

Ironically, this fire reached deeper cuts, causing the shaft to catch fire. It burned for a very long time, until the streets of the city were deserted forever.

Danger lurks on every corner of Centralia: poisonous gases, crumbling roads, and smoking ground underfoot.

6. Gates of Hell

The Gates of Hell is a hole in the ground in Turkmenistan, almost 100 meters wide. In 1971, an accident at a Soviet drilling station triggered this fault and a dangerous gas leak.

Scientists realized that the best solution would be to burn these gases. But the hole has been burning ever since, and its glow can be seen even from a very long distance.

To date, there is no information about when the fire will end.

5. Sanctuary of Tophet

The Sanctuary of Tophet is located in Tunisia. It is home to the graves of thousands of children.

Historians speculate that perhaps these were human sacrifices during Punic times, when the site was known as Carthage.

It is possible that the children were sacrificed and then eaten due to the famine raging in the region at the time.

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4. Aktun Tunichil Muknal

This place is in Belize. It is filled with skeletal remains and Mayan archaeological artifacts.

The most "fascinating resident" of the cave is a young girl who became the object of human sacrifice.

Her calcined bones gleam like crystal, making the remains even more eerie.

3. Aokigahara

The place is also known as the sea of ​​trees. This is a forest near Mount Fuji in Japan.

If it seems to you that there is nothing more terrible than Dracula's castle in the world, then you read a lot and travel little. The island of dolls, the cemetery of hanging coffins, the forest of suicides - ELLE has selected the TOP 10 scariest places in the world, visiting which can not only expand your horizons, but also deprive you of sleep.

Nazca is the name of a city and a desert plateau in southern Peru. A tiny city with a population of 27 thousand people is constantly teeming with tourists. Some want to look at the mysterious drawings left on dry desert soil, others want to visit the Chauchilla cemetery. Spread out in the suburbs of Nazca, this necropolis is literally open to visitors. Imagine large pits paved with sticks in which the dead sit. The amazing technology of embalming kept the bodies - at least the bones - in perfect order. Among the inhabitants of Chauchilla, there are many who can boast of magnificent hairstyles - despite the fact that the last dead man was buried here 11 centuries ago.

The city on the banks of the river of the same name stands two kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Until April 27, 1986, it was a rapidly developing atomic city, all the inhabitants of which were somehow related to nuclear power plants. Immediately after the terrible accident at the station, almost fifty thousand of its population was evacuated and the city turned into a monument. Or rather, a memorial. So it stands empty for more than thirty years, becoming a creepy open-air museum. Residential buildings, a hospital, kindergartens and schools, playgrounds, a Ferris wheel - everything remains. And not a single soul.

The Echo Valley in the Philippines is full of rocks. Coffins hang close to each other on them. The locals are convinced that the higher the body of the deceased is located, the faster he will be in heaven. Forcing them to bury the bodies is useless. The tradition of burying the dead in the air has existed for more than two thousand years, and how and on what the coffins are attached, the locals do not tell - this is a secret.

There are many islands in the suburbs of Mexico City, the most famous of course is La Isla de las Muñecas, the Island of the Dolls. In the fifties of the last century, a young man named Julian Barrera witnessed the death of a child, a girl, who drowned near this island. Barrera kept her doll for himself, and from that moment the spirit of the deceased began to appear to him. To appease the spirit, Julian began to hang old dolls found in the garbage heaps on the island. And in the end, he settled on this island. In 2001, after his death (Barrera, like that same girl, drowned near the island), enthusiasts, his relatives, continued the work. There are a lot of dolls here and together they look very creepy.

The real name of the mansion located in Transylvania is Bran, but it is known, of course, as the castle of Dracula, Count Vlad the Fourth, who received the nickname the Piercer because of his love for impaling his subjects. The castle, built on the edge of the abyss, is one hundred percent the embodiment of the Gothic style: gloomy decoration, howling sounds (which are caused by a chimney that starts to hum in strong winds). The main attraction of the castle is Dracula's bedroom with a huge bed, it is here, according to legend, that the owner preferred to drink the blood of his victims. The “house” looks very well-groomed, for which thanks to Francis Ford Coppola, who invested in the reconstruction of the castle when he filmed his film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel there.

In the Czech village of Lukova, the church of St. George (St. George) has been standing since the 14th century. It was empty in 1968, after a fire broke out during the funeral service and the roof collapsed. A few years ago, the sculptor Yakov Hadrava, preparing to submit his thesis, decided to turn the church into a platform for his experiments. And he populated the empty building with human statues, whose heads are covered under the covers. The sight is mesmerizing and scary. The teachers, by the way, were also imbued with Jacob's diploma - in such an original form - they accepted.

The famous Mount Fuji is known not only in itself: at its foot lies Aokigahara, a dense forest full of rocky caves. Aokigahara is incredibly quiet and very, very gloomy. Already in ancient times, the forest was considered a place of "residence" of monsters and ghosts. And it was here that the inhabitants brought and left their loved ones whom they could not feed - the infirm old people and children. The dark reputation of Aokigahara with might and main attracts people who are inclined to take their own lives there. Over the past 60 years, the bodies of more than five hundred suicides have been found in the forest - in this sense, Aokigahara is second only to the famous Golden Gate Bridge.

Not surprisingly, the "Suicide Forest" is crammed full of signs urging would-be suicides to come to their senses. The Japanese believe that once they enter Aokigahara, they cannot leave it. Therefore, it is visited only by rescuers who are looking for those who want to commit suicide, and daredevil tourists.

They buried here for four centuries in a row, until the end of the 18th century. There was little space, a lot of bodies. As a result, more than 100,000 dead people found shelter in a small area. So that everyone had enough space, the old tombstones were covered with earth and new ones were immediately put up. Thus, 12 layers of graves were accumulated. Over time, some layers due to the sagging earth crawled out into the light of day, running into later ones, and the cemetery became like a crowd at rush hour in public transport.

Here it is, South American Gothic in all its glory. The Manchak swamp is located near New Orleans and is called nothing more than a swamp of ghosts. Slaves fled here from their masters, but none of them got out of here - they were all eaten by giant crocodiles. The spirits of the dead and those same crocodiles are the main ingredients in the eerie menu of Manchak, a place that attracts tourists so much. Excursions are actively led in the swamp, both during the day and at night.

Built in Portugal in the 16th century, the chapel is filled with the remains of monks: in total, more than five thousand people rest there. Bones, skulls are everywhere, wherever you look. And the inscription on the roof of the building - "Better the day of death than the birthday" - sets in an optimistic mood.