There are many wonderful, beautiful places on Earth that are worth visiting while your eyes can see and your feet walk. And there are about the same number of corners, nooks and objects that a good person should bypass the tenth road. It is doubly awful that tickets and permits to many of the scariest places on the planet are officially sold by travel agencies and museum administrations. Choosing the direction of an unusual trip, do not risk ruining the vacation bliss by visiting at least one of them, even if you got the voucher burning and at half price.

1. Summit of Mount Washington

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

Mount Washington holds the world record for the speed of wind on the earth's surface. In April 1934, the air masses at the top of Washington reached a speed of 372 km / h. In winter, such winds mean snow storms, which picturesquely sweep the complex of buildings of the observatory with doors and windows tightly sealed at this time of year. The structures and devices 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 traveler and the willful natural beauty photographer. And it is insanely desirable for the one who "ordered" suicide by being blown away by a hurricane wind into a thorny ice snowdrift.

2. The poisonous beauty of the Danakil Desert

We understand - active rest, new impressions, but not so much! - we said to friends, packing things 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. Lovers of risk and horror listen to the storytellers, look at the pictures and, one after another, go on a deadly trip through one of the most terrible and strange landscapes on the planet.

Once you walk on the space surface of Danakil - and you don't need to fly to Mars. There is almost no oxygen for breathing over the volcanic wasteland, but for everyone and everything there is enough scorching air saturated with fetid gases born of the earth boiling underfoot and melting stones.

Traveling in 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 breathing in sulfur vapors for the rest of your life and making it short-lived. In addition, in the Afar region, semi-savage tribes of Ethiopian citizens periodically go on the warpath for water food. Ten-year-old boys with guns and submachine guns can become one of the most terrible surprises in the world that lie in wait for the traveler in the place of unearthly beauty - the African Danakil Desert.

3. Capital of the grandchildren of cannibals

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

In fact, she is like this:

In Port Moresby, such leaders of the "banana republic" as the president and ministers live and work, and bandit brigades run the real life of the city. For a white man, the PNG capital is a terrible place. It's all the same that an intellectual is sent to jail by youngsters to please.

Papuans in the forest kill outsiders for food, and this is due to the lack of protein in their traditional diet. Papuans in the city "kill" tourists because of laziness and unemployment. Spoiled by Australian handouts, the aborigines 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 to the gang and get funds for booze, drugs and girls, hunting suckers. They kill in Port Moresby 3 times more often than in Moscow. The police do not care for these guys, because they are bought or intimidated. Look at their faces and never dream of becoming the second Miklouho-Maclay, for they will eat like Cook.

Every person burdened with household 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-corners in every country on every continent. No culture can live without damned places. The scariest places on the planet compete for the intensity of quiet horror, like economies, brands or football leagues. The most terrible places attract guests - from among the bourgeoisie who are used to seeing horror on TV. Without such corners of the Earth it would be boring to live. As in an apartment without te-e-corners.

4. Forest of cultural suicides

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

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

Walking through the terrible forest of Aokigahara, the traveler will stumble upon more than just corpses, skulls and loops. And on numerous billboards with inscriptions like “Life is a priceless gift! Please think again! " or "Think about your family!"

In the 1970s, the problem attracted popular attention, and since then, every year government units have been sent to clear the forest from "fresh" corpses. The area of ​​the tract is 35 square kilometers. For a year, from 70 to 100 newly arrived suicides "ripen" on the branches of trees.

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

5. Beer, glass, skeletons

The cozy, civilized Czech Republic cannot be called a terrible country. Tourists are happy 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 town of Kutná Hora.

For the inhabitants of medieval Europe, the abbey in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora, was the most fashionable and desirable cemetery. Its insane popularity was due to the fact that in 1278 a monk brought some land from Jerusalem, from Golgotha ​​itself, and scattered the holy soil in small handfuls over the local churchyard. Many thousands of people wanted 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 was opened in the abbey - a warehouse for bones extracted from graves that were not looked after.

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 creative carver named Rint for this. With the mortal sense of humor and taste inherent in true Czechs, Pan Rint created a terrible miracle from the mortal Catholic 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 and panove!

The eerie chapel is open to beer and becherovka-intoxicated visitors seven days a week.

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

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

Top positions in the Mutter 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 this very; the body of a “soap lady” (a female corpse that has turned into a fat wax in the ground); tumor removed from US President Cleveland; spliced ​​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 house for the enlightened

Drapchi Tibetan prison, which is located on the road from Lhasa airport to Lhasa city, is considered the worst prison in the world. In Drapchi, since 1965, since 1965, evil Chinese have been pedantic persecuting rebellious Tibetan lamas. Here, behind the thorn, there are more monks than in any single Buddhist monastery.

The Chinese occupation authorities cynically refer to such jails as "rehabilitation centers." In Drapchi, you can get a “stray” bullet in the forehead for a wrong look towards the whirligig. For the slightest protest, the prisoners-monks are mercilessly beaten. One of the violators of the regime spent so long in a solitary confinement cell that he forgot how to speak. The other has been languishing in prison for 20 years already for distributing a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, the Chinese Gulag Buddhists are forced to attend scientific communism classes. If you haven't learned a lesson, get some chakras with a batog. Didn't come to class - try bamboo porridge. Is this a terrible prospect?

Lyrical digression: wandering through the black Japanese forests with gallows and museums with skulls and intestines, we romantics have completely forgotten about such the most terrible places on the planet as the working torture rooms of the criminal investigation department in the regional police departments. About places where a small civil war and nano-genocide are played out every day. We, romantics, are saved from visiting such "horrors" by the holy faith in justice and the neat appearance of chaste eyes. As for the civil war, I remember that the most terrible, bloody and unusually stupid of them was in Rwanda. An eerie 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 is over 420 individuals. In 1994, the 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 ambassadorial reports about the Rwandan genocide and its consequences, the white man sighed heavily and went to pacify the barmaley. Those of them who had blood on their hands higher than the elbows 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 - Guitarama.

In the barracks, designed for the maintenance of 500 prisoners, more than 6,000 Rwandan barmalees languish, awaiting trial for 8-10 years (!). They are tormented by hunger, so it is normal to bite off a cellmate's heel or ear. 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 stench spreads 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 a verdict - from violence or disease. And God forbid, nor the devil, to get into the Guitar, a white intelligent person ...

9. Homeland of the slum millionaire

What does real India smell like? Incense, marijuana, fried cremation meat? Real, unopened India smells of slop, sewage and chemical waste. This stench is inhaled from morning to evening by the benevolent and superstitious consumers of Bollywood films, residents of the area where renting an "apartment" for a month costs no more than $ 4. This is Dharavi, Asia's largest nakhalstroy - a slum settlement in the heart of enchanting, multimillion-dollar Mumbai.

The main character of the film "Slumdog Millionaire" hails from the "city within the city" Dharavi. Over a million Hindus and Muslims live here on 175 hectares of muddy land. Their bread is the processing of urban waste, which is brought here and brought here in tens of tons every day. Inhabitants of the terrible slums are engaged in the disposal of plastic, cans, glass and waste paper. Their barefoot children and wives climb Mumbai's dumpsters in search of something that can be recycled.

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

10. Capital of relentless violence

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

People of the Somali anthropological type are stately and handsome. They often die young, taking their cruel beauty to a desolate grave. But new, future sea and city robbers are born, not disdaining anything, just not to show themselves weak and not be left without supper.

1. Manchak swamps in Louisiana

In the American state of Louisiana, near the city of New Orleans, there are impenetrable Manchak swamps, also known as the "Ghost Swamps". According to legends, this place was cursed by the black Voodoo witch when she was taken prisoner in the 20th century. In the middle of the swamps, there are centuries-old trees with spreading branches, sometimes descending to the very water, while the roots of trees creeping out like snakes protrude from the water. The idea to drain the swamps and cut down trees was not crowned with success - several small villages were blown away by a hurricane, more than one hundred people perished in the swamp, their corpses still continue to surface, although more than 100 years have passed. Currently, the Manchak swamps attract lovers of occultism and mysteries, and excursions are organized for those who wish.

2. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia

The Museum of Medical History of Mutter contains all kinds of pathologies, biological exhibits, old medical instruments. The museum is located in North America, in the training center for doctors. The main part of the exposition is made up of skulls and skeletons, although there is also a huge number of other unique exhibits, for example, a human intestine 12.5 cm long; a person who, during his lifetime, suffers from ossifying fibrodysplasia (with this disease, bones are formed at the site of wounds and bruises); Siamese twins; a baby with two heads, various growths, curvatures and other deformities.

4. Kostnice (Ossuary Museum) in the Czech Republic

The history of the creation of the Ossuary began when Abbot Jindrich in 1278 brought a handful of holy land from Golgotha ​​and scattered it in the local cemetery, which has since become very popular, because everyone wanted to rest in the holy land. Many burials date back to the 14th century, when more than 30 thousand people were buried here during the plague epidemic. Then there were waves, riots, as a result of which the cemetery grew to an enormous size. As a result, it was decided that at new burials, the old bones should be taken out and put in the church. When the Schwanzerbergs became the owners of the land, they hired a woodcarver to somehow immortalize the remains. As a result, the Ossuary was created, in which all objects are made from thousands of human bones.

5. Dracula's castle in Trasylvania

Bran Castle (the real name of Dracula's castle) was built in the Middle Ages on one of the cliffs in the Carpathian Mountains. The castle was made in the Gothic style: stone stairs, narrow passages, cramped rooms - all this has a depressing effect on the psyche of a normal person. The castle still looks like it was described in the famous novel "Dracula". The chimney of the castle makes howling sounds in strong winds - quite in the spirit of horror films. In one of the numerous rooms of the castle there is a huge bed, on which the owner of the castle allegedly sucked blood from his victims.

6. Witchcraft market Sonora in Mexico City

Any tourist in Mexico City can visit the local witchcraft market, which offers a rich selection of accessories for witchcraft (candles, herbs, Voodoo dolls, amulets, black salt, "St. Ignatius water", golden sand, love potions, lotions and much more. ), figurines of witches, wigs, bunches of garlic and other witch attributes. If you really want to, you can even buy the blood of a rattlesnake or dried hummingbird to attract good luck. Here, for only $ 10, local sorceresses, sitting in cramped rooms, will save you from adultery and poverty. The Mexicans themselves believe in their witchcraft and before going to doctors, they first try magic potions.

7. Laguna Truk in Micronesia

Once in the lagoon of Truk Island, a Japanese military base was based, and was considered one of the most formidable, because of which the leadership of the base relaxed a little, despite the approach of the US army, which in February 1944 made an attack, catching the Japanese military by surprise. The outcome of this battle was the flooding of all available military equipment in the waters of the lagoon. Now Truk Lagoon is one of the best places for scuba diving, because here the types of old military equipment are combined with dozens of coral species and a variety of the underwater world. However, not everyone decides to inspect the equipment, because there is an opportunity to meet their crew, which is still at their combat posts.

8.Museum of torture in Malta

There are enough museums in Europe that store all kinds of instruments of torture, such as the "Spanish boot", guillotines and other creepy attributes, but the Maltese museum has the strongest impact on visitors. The museum is located in the capital of ancient Malta, the city of Mdina. The Torture Museum is located in one of the basements of the town; here are presented both real instruments of torture, such as pliers for pulling out nails, a rack, a vice for squeezing a skull, and their "victims" made of wax - people with severed heads, gallows. The scenes of these tortures are also presented here - here is the executor pouring boiling oil into his victim with already bulging eyes; and here is the inquisitor, pulling out the tongue of his victim. The brave excursionists are followed by the hunchback - the caretaker.

9. Winchester House in California

This huge mystical mansion is visited by tourists from all over the world, because a huge number of legends and mysteries are associated with it. Once the fortune teller guessed the heiress of the arms company Sarah Winchester that she would be haunted by the ghosts of people killed from the Winchesters and this can only be avoided if you build a house, which will be impossible to complete during her lifetime. The construction of the house went on for all 38 years that Sarah lived after this prediction. Now the ghosts of her madness live in 160 rooms of this huge house - doors that open in the middle of the wall; stairs leading to the ceiling; hooks, candelabra, spider motives. The house is often heard slamming doors, footsteps at night, moving lights and other frightening phenomena.

10. Occult Thelemic Abbey in Sicily

In the early 20th century, Aleister Crowley was considered the most vile occultist in the world. And his stone house, filled with pagan frescoes, was the center of satanic orgies. Crowley became famous for his appearance on the cover of one of the Beatles albums. Crowley became the founder of Thelema Abbey, which had the motto "Do what you want." Free love flourished here. Newcomers underwent a kind of initiation ceremony in the "Nightmare Room", where, under the influence of drugs, they had to spend the night among the frescoes of earth, hell and heaven. After the death of a popular English dandy within the walls of the abbey, the office was closed. Currently, the abbey is overgrown with grass and almost destroyed, but several frescoes have survived and lovers of esotericism can visit it to tickle their nerves.

On Earth there are a lot of incredibly interesting, unusual and. Do not forget about the mysterious, mystical, and sometimes frankly creepy places, looking at which is breathtaking and seizes with sincere horror. It seems that these otherworldly landscapes broke through to us from another world - the world of nightmares, monsters and ghosts. And despite the fact that most of the creepy places were created by nature, there are some areas that were created by the dark and terrible hands of the people themselves.

Below is a selection of photos from the most eerie places on the planet.

The abandoned city of Pripyat, located in the immediate vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an accident occurred in 1986 that killed about 10,000 people who died from the effects of radiation exposure. Photo: Zoltan Balog.
A view of the interior of the abandoned Gary Church of Gary, Indiana. Photo: Chris Arnold.
A huge desert of barren land in San Juan County, New Mexico. The entire desert is filled with surreal landscapes created by combinations of rock formations and fossils.
Hell's Gate is a natural gas outlet site in Derweze, Turkmenistan. In 1971, Soviet geologists discovered a gas field. While drilling, scientists stumbled upon a void, which led to a collapse and the release of gas. To avoid poisoning people with natural gas, it was decided to set fire to the fault. The burning was supposed to stop in a few days, but the fire is still raging. Photo: Tormod Sandtorv
The Valley of the Whales (Wadi al-Hitan) is a paleontological site where the remains of ancient whales were discovered. The fossils illustrate the evolutionary process and prove that whales originally lived on land. Photo: Roland Unger.
Death Valley is a national park in California that is the hottest and driest place in North America.
If you are afraid of heights, then the Trolltunga rock in Norway would be almost the scariest place on the planet for you. It hangs horizontally over 700 meters above the Ringedalsvatnet Lake and offers an enchanting view of the Hardanger Valley. There are no safety fences on the rock. Photo: TerjeN
The Desert National Park in Namibia is home to a 900-year-old forest of dead trees that once grew here. Trees do not decompose due to the too dry climate of the area. Photo: Ikiwaner.
Located north of the White Desert, Egypt's Black Desert lies near the Bahariya Oasis. The desert is known for its black sand and black volcanic rocks. Photo: RolandUnge.
Deer Cave in Malu National Park is home to more than 3 million bats that inhabit the cave ceiling, at an altitude that in some places reaches 140 meters. The cave is located in Borneo, Malaysia. Photo: Robbie Sean.
One of the darkest and most mysterious cemeteries on the planet is located in Sheffield, UK. Almost all the graves in the cemetery are unnamed, and locals say that ghosts wander here from time to time, explaining that in the 19th century the cemetery was a place of frequent grave robberies.
Hashima Island in Japan was inhabited from 1887 to 1974 when coal was mined here, providing thousands of jobs. When the amount of coal in the deposit decreased, people began to simply leave the island, as a result of which it was completely abandoned. Photo: Yaves Marchand and Romain Meffrey.
The Hill of Crosses is a pilgrimage site in the north of Lithuania. For centuries, crosses, giant crucifixes, statues and thousands of tiny crosses have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but according to experts, 10 years ago there were about 100,000 of them. Photo: Joe Klamer.
The subway of the American city of Cincinnati is one of the largest abandoned tunnels on the planet. Construction came to a halt in the late 1920s before half of the 25 km line was completed. The subway tunnel is located between the Cincinnati CBD and the Norwood suburb. Photo: Jonathan Warren
Boiling Lake is located in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica. A crack in the earth's crust erupts endless streams of gas and steam, causing the water to boil endlessly.
More than 50 large transports from the Second World War are buried under the water column of Truk Lagoon. Many wrecks have cargo holds full of tanks, bulldozers, railroad cars, motorcycles, torpedoes, mines, weapons, and human remains. Some divers also report seeing ghosts among the rubble at the bottom of Truk Lagoon. Photo: Adam Horwood
A man walks past a wall of skulls and bones in the catacombs of Paris. The catacombs were used to store the remains of generations of Parisians in an attempt to cope with the overcrowding of Parisian cemeteries in the late 18th century. Photo: Boris Horvat
An abandoned amusement park near Berlin, Germany. The last visitors to the park were here 13 years ago, since then it has been empty, everything is overgrown with trees and bushes, and this deserted place looks creepy and frightening.
Lake Caddo, located on the Texas-Louisiana border. This eerie place is full of surreal weird plots. The lake is full of submerged trees and bushes that have been growing here for over 400 years.
One of the caves on Phang Nga Island, which is simply teeming with bats hanging from the ceiling. Photo: Jerry Redfern
A bone chandelier hanging in the crypt of Sedlec, Czech Republic. The crypt was built in the 14th century, after which its walls were filled with the remains of 40 thousand people over 4 centuries.
The Grove of the Crooked Forest is located in northwestern Poland, filled with hundreds of pine trees that have a strange 90-degree bend at the base. The grove was planted back in 1930. After several years of normal growth of trees, they were pressed to the ground, for which a special technique was used, which kept the young trees close to the ground. After several years of such an experiment, the trees were freed, and their pillars were irretrievably deformed.
An eerie, mysterious blood red waterfall erupts from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. This waterfall resembles an endless stream of blood escaping from the ground. In fact, this is water from an underground lake rich in iron. Photo: Peter Reisek.
Bran Castle, known as "Dracula's Castle", stands among the Transylvanian mountains in Romania. This is only one of several places associated with the legend of Dracula, but it retains its mystery and attracts crowds of tourists every year. Photo: Sean Gallup.
Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave in Belize, famous for archaeological sites associated with the Mayan tribes. There are remains, ceramics and other household items. The photo shows the skeleton of a teenage girl who, judging by the surroundings around, was sacrificed.
A flock of vultures flies over the La Chureca landfill, Central America's largest landfill, located in Managua, Nicaragua.
The beds and furniture were left in the psychiatric ward of the abandoned Poveglia Hospital in Venice, Italy. The entire island of Poveglia used to be used as a quarantine for plague victims.
The Kaplica Czaszek Chapel in Czermna, Poland is adorned with 3,000 human bones and skulls and another 20,000 bone fragments lying below the chapel in the crypt.
Island of the Dolls, located in the Xochimilco Canals south of Mexico City. It has become home to hundreds of creepy dolls. The island's dolls are dedicated to the memory of a little girl who drowned in a canal many years ago.

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10 scariest places in the world

There are a huge number of beautiful places that everyone would like to visit, but along with them there are very creepy and scary places that are also very popular with tourists. Present to your attention 10 scariest places in the world.

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Chernobyl in Ukraine opens the top ten the most terrible places on the planet... Today tourists can go to the abandoned city of Pripyat and see the exclusion zone. Thousands of people fled their homes after the Chernobyl disaster. Toys abandoned in kindergartens and newspapers left on dining tables appear. The area of ​​the disaster is now officially allowed for visits - the radiation level is no longer dangerous. Bus tours start in Kiev, then tourists visit a nuclear reactor, see a sarcophagus and head to the abandoned city of Pripyat.

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Aleister Crowley is probably the most famous occultist in the world. This terrible place, teeming with dark pagan frescoes, was intended to be the world capital of satanic orgies. Crowley appeared on the cover of the Beatles' album Sgt. Peper's Lonely Hearts Club. He founded the Abbey of Thelema, which became a community of free love. Director Kenneth Unger, a follower of Crowley, made a film about the abbey, but the film later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is almost completely destroyed.

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The medieval side of Edinburgh's Old City has several streets with a hideous and dark past. This eerie place, where the victims of the plague in the seventeenth century were supposed to die, became known thanks to the poltergeist. Tourists visiting this supernatural place claim that something invisible is touching their hands and feet. Locals say that this is the soul of the girl Annie, whom her parents left here in 1645. A hundred years later, a large building was erected at a dead end. The dead end was opened for tourists in 2003.

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There are many myths and prejudices surrounding this colossal construction. Once a fortune teller predicted the heiress of the arms factory Sarah Winchester that ghosts would haunt her all her life, so she must leave Connecticut and go west and start building a huge house there, which should continue her whole life. Construction began in 1884 and did not end until Sarah's death in 1938. Now the house is inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs, resting against the ceiling, doors at the height of the middle of the wall, chandeliers and hooks. And even those who do not believe in ghosts claim to have seen or heard something inexplicable in this house. This house ranks seventh in our ranking of the top 10 scariest places on the planet.

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The Paris catacombs are ranked sixth on our list scary places on earth... All the walls of the long corridor of the catacombs are tiled with bones and skulls. The very dry air protects them from even a hint of decay. As you enter these catacombs near Paris, you begin to understand why Anne Rice and Victor Hugo wrote their famous novels about these dungeons. Their length is about 187 kilometers along the entire city, and only a small part of them is accessible for visiting. The legendary underground police are said to keep order in the catacombs, although legions of vampires and zombies would be more suitable for this place.

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This scary place is also known as the ghost swamp. It is located near New Orleans. Legend has it that it was cursed by the Voodoo Queen while she was serving her prison there in the 1920s. Three small villages nearby were razed to the ground in 1915.

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Perhaps this place is one of the most mysterious places in the world. This island has gained worldwide fame thanks to gigantic stone sculptures, looking up into the sky, as if begging him for mercy. And only the stone of these statues knows who their creators were. No one on the island is familiar with the art of sculpture. No one can imagine how it was possible to make statues twenty meters high and weighing ninety tons. Among other things, the statues had to be delivered twenty kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked.

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Opens three of the most creepy places on earth, the black magic bazaar in Sonora. Lots of witches sit in tiny booths and offer to save you from poverty and adultery for just ten dollars. Every day, many Mexican and foreign tourists flock to this market, wanting to know something about their future. There you can buy Mysterious Potions, Snake Blood and Dried Hummingbirds for good luck.

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The bulk of the Japanese navy now rests at the bottom of this lagoon, southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The entire bottom of this lagoon, explored by Jacques Yves Cousteau in 1971, is littered with fragments of warships sunk in 1944. This is a scary place attracts many divers, although many are afraid of the ship's crews, forever remaining in their combat posts. Fighters and aircraft carriers became coral reefs, and many divers who descended to explore these reefs never returned from their underwater voyages.

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The Mutter Museum of the History of Medicine ranks first in our ranking of the most terrible places on the planet. This museum was founded to educate future doctors in human anatomy and human body anomalies. It features various pathologies, ancient medical instruments, and biological oddities. The museum is primarily known for its extensive collection of skulls. There are also unique exhibits in it, such as the body of a dead woman, turned into soap in a grave. Also there you can see Siamese twins sharing one liver for two, the skeleton of a two-headed boy and other terrible things.

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Despite the fact that abandoned cities and eerie corners of the earth terrify impressionable tourists, hundreds of travelers constantly come to these most terrible places on the planet in search of thrills.

Prague cemetery

One of such terrible places in the world is the Prague cemetery with 12 thousand ancient gravestones, which operated in the Czech Republic for four centuries. In this cemetery, unknown travelers found their last refuge, but most often wealthy citizens were buried in luxurious processions. The territory of the cemetery is small, but 100 thousand of the dead are buried here. It is noteworthy that the older burials were covered with earth, then new dead were buried on top of them. This is how about 12 tiers were formed: now travelers can observe an eerie picture - the sagging earth has exposed several upper "floors" with coffins and gravestones.

St. George Church

St. George's Church is also located in the Czech Republic, in one of the tiny villages: tourists go to an abandoned temple, attracted by an unusual legend of the place. Sometime during the next funeral service, the roof over the church collapsed. Once a holy place, the Czech artist Hadrava decorated with numerous ominous ghost sculptures.

Mexican island of abandoned dolls

The Mexican island of abandoned dolls attracts adrenaline lovers with the exoticism of forgotten toys. In the middle of the last century, the hermit who settled here began to collect and “settle” dolls thrown into the trash. About a thousand broken and mutilated toys are tied to trees - many of the dolls sit on the ground or hang on branches: this is how the hermit decided to perpetuate the memory of the girl who drowned in the bay.

Chapel of bones

The next terrible place in the world is also impressive - the chapel of bones, built many centuries ago by a Franciscan monk in one of the cities of Portugal. The small chapel contains the remains of five thousand monks. The roof and walls of the tomb are decorated with intricate inscriptions in Latin.

Paris catacombs

The world famous Parisian catacombs are a winding system of underground tunnels with extensive caves and slopes. A communications network with a length of up to 300 kilometers runs near Paris: more than 6 million people have found their shelter here.

Japanese island Hashima

The Japanese island of Hashima is also considered the most mystical place in the world. This abandoned mining town once provided the country with coal: quarries and a mine operated in the late 19th century. People came here in the hope of making money: the miners densely populated the island with their families. Almost 40 years ago, the enterprise became unprofitable, the coal mines were closed. Now this island has become a popular ghost town with tourists.

Suicide forest

Jukai, the famous Suicide Forest, is located on one of the Japanese islands and went down in history as a bad place where thousands of people took their own lives. The forest was initially notorious for the ancient legends about ghosts, and since the middle of the last century, suicides have become frequent in these eerie thickets. Deeper several hundred meters into the forest, along the paths you can find things - shoes, clothes, bags of the deceased. Knowing how attractive the place is for people with a weak mentality, the authorities installed a warning poster with a helpline number.

Burials of fire mummies of Kabayan

Among the most mystical places in the world are the burials of the Kabayan fire mummies in the Philippines. These remains are more than seven centuries old: the locals believe that the spirits of the mummified deceased still live near the graves. A peculiarity of local customs - they buried mummies in small capsule-coffins made of wood, laying the bodies of the deceased in them in the most uncomfortable positions.

Akodessev Magic Market

In the magical market of Akodesseva, which lies in the center of the capital of Togo, you can see sorcerers who still practice voodoo magic and use dolls in terrifying rituals. The choice is offered to buyers and fans of monstrous artifacts, decorated skulls, magic accessories, potions and potions, dried monkey heads, hare and chicken paws, various souvenirs and local amulets.

Mental hospital

In the rating of scary places in the world, tourists are attracted by the old psychiatric hospital in the city of Parma: it was once one of the most successful clinics in Italy, but over time the building fell into disrepair. The masterpiece of the object was made by an artist from Brazil, who painted the walls of the hospital with silhouettes of patients. Ghostly figures adorn the building, conveying to rare visitors the eerie atmosphere of an abandoned Italian hospital.

Plague Isle

In Italy, there is another terrifying attraction - Plague Island in the Venetian lagoon. Since ancient times, this place was adapted for the residence of patients who were exiled here from all over the country. More than 16 thousand plague people are buried here, but the locals believe that their souls have not calmed down and are still hovering over the graves. The island's gloomy reputation is also supported by legends, according to which terrible experiments were performed on the sick.

City of Centralia

Connoisseurs of the genre of horror and realistic computer games travel to the American city of Centralia for a special experience: it was here that the famous horror film "Silent Hill" was filmed. This town in Pennsylvania is famous for the fact that due to an extensive fire, the population almost left these territories. The underground fire has not yet been extinguished: the atmosphere of hopelessness is emphasized by ash particles in the air above empty streets with destroyed houses.

Mountain of crosses

The most mystical places in the world in the last century were replenished with a new attraction - the Hill of Crosses with ancient Lithuanian crosses is an eerie hill that is not at all a cemetery. According to numerous legends, everyone who erected a cross here will receive good luck and change their destiny for the better.

Cave in Belize

The cave in Belize attracts tourists with the strange atmosphere of the ancient Maya cult. This unusual archaeological site is located near Mount Tapira and is famous for a kind of cathedral, arranged in one of the cave halls. Here bloody sacrifices were performed for terrible deities. The Maya also believed that it was here that the gates to the underworld opened.

Chauchilla cemetery

The Peruvian Chauchilla cemetery is also on the list of the most terrible places on the planet. The country's landmark is located near the Nazca plateau, known to ufologists. The necropolis was discovered by scientists about a century ago. The method of burial attracted the attention of archaeologists: the dead were seated in graves, covering their bodies with a special composition. Thanks to ancient recipes, the dead are perfectly preserved: this was also facilitated by the dry climate of the Peruvian desert.

Snake island

In Brazil, the Serpent Island is considered the most creepy place: the territory is famous for the presence of a huge number of snakes - here, on every square meter of forest land, you can find up to six dangerous and poisonous reptiles. Now tourists are prohibited from visiting Keymada Grande due to the risk of being attacked by huge venomous reptiles.

Molebsky Triangle

The Molebsky Triangle is included in the rating of the most creepy places in Russia: it is a remote village in the Perm Territory, in which anomalous UFO activity has been noticed. Previously, the Mansi lived here, who made sacrifices to their gods on a stone plateau.

Russia also has its own exotic City of the Dead: the small Ossetian village of Dargavs is famous for its richly decorated family crypts.

Overtone bridge

One of Scotland's bridges, Overtown, has become infamous for unexplained dog suicides. Dozens of dogs threw themselves down on stones and died, and the survivors went upstairs to try again.

Hanging coffins of Sagada

The list of the most terrible places on the planet would be incomplete without the hanging coffins of the Sagada - original burial structures are arranged in the forest of one of the villages in the Philippines. Locals bury the dead, hanging them so that the souls of the departed ancestors were closer to the sky.

Sanctuary Tophet

In the Tunisian sanctuary of Tophet, several centuries ago, animals and children were sacrificed: this was a feature of the bloody religion of old Carthage.

The unfinished subway in Cincinnati

The grandiose construction site is striking with the atmosphere of abandonment - an unfinished subway in Cincinnati. The depot was built at the end of the 19th century, but the branch was frozen for economic reasons. Now the depot can be accessed several times a year, although diggers from all over the world often visit the unfinished metro on their own.