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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 gravestones reaches 12 thousand. Cemetery workers covered older burials with earth and erected new tombstones in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 burial tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the subsided earth revealed old gravestones to the eyes of the living, who began to move later slabs. The view was 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. They say that in 1950, a certain hermit, Julian Santana Barrera, began collecting and hanging dolls from trash cans, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl who had drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.

Hashima Island, Japan

Hashima is a former coal mining settlement founded in 1887. The island was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with a coastline of about a kilometer, its population in 1959 was 5,259 people. When coal mining here became unprofitable, the mine was closed, and the island city joined the list of ghost towns. This happened in 1974.

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 written 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 unofficial name of the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located in Japan on the island of Honshu and famous for the frequent suicides committed there. The forest was originally associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally thought to be the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (first at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to commit suicide. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us 22-0110."

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione created an art piece from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He depicted the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients wander around the former hospital.

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.

Catacombs in Paris, France

The Catacombs are a network of winding underground tunnels and caves beneath 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.

Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

Due to an underground fire that broke out 50 years ago and continues to burn to this day, the number of residents has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). Centralia now has the smallest population 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.

Magic Market Akodessewa, Togo

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

Plague Island, Italy

Poveglia is one of the most famous islands of the Venetian Lagoon, in northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times the island was used as a place of exile for plague patients, and as a result, up to 160,000 people were buried there. The souls of many of the dead allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now filled. The island's dark reputation is compounded by stories of horrific experiments allegedly carried out on psychiatric patients. In this regard, paranormal researchers call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

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

Burials of Kabayan, Philippines

The famous fire mummies of Kabayan, dating back to 1200-1500 AD, are buried here, as well as, as local residents 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 this,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

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 threw themselves from a 15-meter height, fell onto rocks and were killed. Those that survived came back and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real “killer” of four-legged animals.

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

Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the cursed castles in the world. Its gloomy 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 remove all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 carts. Local residents say that the castle is haunted by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.

The Chauchilla Cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on the southern coast of Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 20s of the twentieth century. According to researchers, bodies found in the cemetery are about 700 years old, and the last burials here took place in the 9th century. Chowchilla 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 were perfectly preserved thanks to the Peruvian dry desert climate.

The most notorious feature of Carthage's religion was the sacrifice of children, mainly infants. During the sacrifice it was forbidden to cry, since it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a site where several rows of urns were found containing the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was called Tophet.

Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands on our planet. 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. Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting the island, and locals are telling chilling stories about it.

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 decorated with marble, and the staircases were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the monument house has been completely looted, only a concrete frame with reinforcement remains, looking like a destroyed alien ship.

During the First and Second World Wars, the hospital was used by the military, and in 1916 Adolf Hitler was treated there. After World War II, the hospital found itself in the zone of Soviet occupation and became the largest Soviet hospital outside the USSR. The complex consists of 60 buildings, some of which have now been restored. Almost all abandoned buildings are closed to access. The doors and windows are securely boarded up with high boards and sheets of plywood.

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 metro disappeared. Construction slowed in 1925, with half of the 16 km line completed. The abandoned subway now hosts tours twice a year, but many people are known to wander its tunnels alone.

On the island of Luzon, in the village of Sagada, there is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual funeral 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.

Fear is a completely natural emotion of a person who is faced with something unusual and frightening. Some people are horrified by seemingly ordinary things and phenomena. Some people are terrified of flights of stairs or spiders. Some people faint at the thought of flying on an airplane. As a rule, all these fears are caused by some kind of psychological problems or traumas suffered in distant childhood.

But there are the most terrible places on earth, in which even the most persistent and self-confident person begins to feel uncomfortable. Often phenomena are observed there for which there is no logical explanation. Such locations will be discussed in this article. More precisely, we will discuss the Top 10 most terrible places on the planet.

Suicide Forest, Japan

At the entrance to this “wonderful” place there are numerous billboards. There are many inscriptions on them, reminding that life is the most precious thing every person has. Promising, isn't it? And it’s true: this area is included in the “19 most creepy and scary places on earth” according to English paranormal researchers.

This forest is very, very strange. Creepy, twisted trees, dense growth of bushes and eternal twilight. But what’s even scarier about it is that under your feet you often find ropes, scraps of clothing, and packages of potent medicines. All this was left here by those who were never destined to see the sun again.

If you go five hundred meters deep in any direction, you will almost inevitably come across a skeleton(s), or even a fresh corpse. The police annually (!), together with medical workers, search this terrible place. And every year there are at least a couple of hundred remains of varying degrees of preservation. It is not surprising that the most terrible places on earth (top ratings are compiled annually) have had this “cute” forest in their ranks for decades.

You might think that this is a description of some low-grade horror film... Alas, this forest is quite real. For decades, various relevant departments have been conducting investigations and studying its phenomenon, but not a single answer has been received. Why does this particular place attract people contemplating suicide? If you think that only local bones are scattered in the forest, then you are mistaken. People come here from all over Japan!

However, there are those for whom such a terrible place brings good profits. These are looters. There are rumors of cases where these vultures picked up valuable jewelry and wallets worth several million yen in a couple of visits. What other scariest places on earth are there?

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

As a rule, people expect relaxation and rest from the hardships and experiences of the big world from a sanatorium. If you think the same, then you definitely shouldn’t come to the “fried chicken state,” that is, Kentucky. There are the most terrible places on earth, where a person simply feels uncomfortable, but only here you can really see... the source of your anxiety.

This sanatorium is famous for its ghosts, the images of which have been repeatedly captured on camera. This place has become famous since 1920. Tuberculosis was rampant in the United States at that time. A hospital was set up in the sanatorium. The scale of the disease was so terrifying that every half hour one of the patients died.

In order not to shock the respectable public, it was decided to use a tunnel from the hospital to the nearest railway station for storing the dead, from where the corpses were taken to the crematorium (the hospital’s capacity was simply not enough). Sometimes the bodies lay there for days.

Continuation of a story

This continued until 1943, when outbreaks of tuberculosis were observed less and less frequently, and great scientific minds were able to create a simple vaccine, which still helped stop many cases of the disease. The building was temporarily closed but was later converted into a nursing home. Since most of the guests were abandoned by their families, the old people were treated very rudely.

Eventually, it got to the point that residents of neighboring houses filed a lawsuit against the owners of the nursing home, after which it was closed. The building gradually deteriorated and fell into disrepair. That's when thrill-seekers began to frequent there. They looked for evidence of the paranormal and often found it. So, in room No. 502, dozens of seekers saw the ghost of a young girl.

A case is also described when in the empty and destroyed kitchen on the ground floor the sounds of footsteps were heard and the smell of wonderful freshly baked bread was heard. In short, there are more than enough oddities here.

Let's continue to discuss the most terrible places on earth.

Borley House in Essex, England

Classic haunted house. Do you want a thrill? Get this: in this house alone, in the period from 1930 to 1935, more than two thousand (!) cases of poltergeist manifestations were officially registered. This is difficult to fake, even if you really want to.

The house changed owners many times until a team of researchers of the inexplicable settled there in 1937. They recorded dozens of ghosts and completely inexplicable phenomena. In particular, during a spiritualistic seance, someone who identified himself as the previous owner of the house said that in 1939 the building would burn down. And so it happened. Firefighters saw a man and then a woman calmly emerge from the building engulfed in flames. Need I say that by that time there was no one there anymore?

What other scariest places on the planet are there?

Summit of Everest

What comes to mind when you say the word "Everest"? Surely associations will be associated with snow-white snow, with a peak proudly breaking through the clouds... But professional climbers, with some fatigue and indifference, can say that at least a hundred or two corpses lie on the top of this mountain.

These are all those to whom the mountain has not conquered. The reasons for their death are banal: a stolen oxygen cylinder (and at such a height there is literally nothing to breathe), hypothermia and hypoxia, cardiac arrest... Let's continue to discuss the most terrible places on the planet.

Death Valley, USA

The name of this place alone hints that it is not particularly hospitable. Death Valley is a desert area located in the Mojave Desert. It is considered one of the hottest places on the planet: the temperature in these parts sometimes exceeds +55 degrees Celsius. Death in such conditions without water occurs within two to three hours. Despite this, the Valley is a national park and is included in the list of “40 most beautiful places on earth.”

In general, there is nothing paranormal here. Rather, all incidents in Death Valley occur for the most banal reason - human stupidity. Despite constant warnings, there are plenty of originals who travel to these parts without a supply of water and in old cars whose engines overheat instantly.

Why is it so dangerous here?

Standing on a road in the Valley without water is almost certain death. Cars rarely drive, there is no cell phone service. The only correct strategy in this case is to sit in the car and not leave it. Every few hours a sheriff's car drives down the road. But many “extreme seekers” decide to walk around... and die from dehydration, or even disappear completely in the hot valley.

By the way, this national park got its name after a sad story: in 1849, a large group of settlers decided to take a “shortcut” to California by passing through the valley. They only reached the halfway point, after which they all died from dehydration. In general, all the most terrible, mysterious and unusual places in the world, upon closer examination, lose their entire aura of mystery. But it's not always that simple...

Yeluyu Cherkechekh, Yakutia

This valley is located in Yakutia, a strange and mysterious place. Back in Soviet times, there was a legend in these parts about some huge metal boilers. Scientists and military personnel became interested: judging by the descriptions, these “boilers” were strikingly reminiscent of parts of aircraft. But who flew in these parts and when? After all, the legends were hundreds of years old!

The Yakuts have a legend about a hunter who, one terribly cold night, decided to spend the night in a cauldron. Oddly enough, it was warm here in the severe frost. The brave hunter did not see any spirits and slept well. It was only a few days after his return that he began to get very sick, his hair and teeth fell out, the surface of his body became covered with ulcers, and he soon died.

And now it’s almost the same story. Once upon a time there lived a shepherd. And then one day in the steppe he found a convenient sphere, which he believed could be used as a stove. He lived with her for a couple of weeks, after which he died with the same symptoms that were observed in the Yakut hunter. This happened in the vicinity of Baikonur. The “stove” was part of the rocket, and it emitted a monstrous amount of noise. The shepherd died from radiation sickness. So which astronauts scattered their “rockets” across the Yakut valley? There are still no answers.

So let's continue. We haven't discussed all the 10 creepiest places on earth yet!

Death Valley, Kamchatka

Another valley with the same “romantic” name. One day, local hunters lost their dogs, which they took with them on a hunt. After wandering for a couple of hours, people came to the slope of a ridge, where the corpses of a variety of animals lay piled up. Among them they saw their dogs.

After staying in this place for only a couple of hours, people felt severe malaise and weakness. For several months they were very sick, losing tens of kilograms in weight. During subsequent attempts to explore the Valley, about a hundred scientists died. And the casket opened simply: it turns out that in that place the exits of underground volcanic cavities open, from which many heavy, highly toxic gases emerge. Walking there without a powerful gas mask is strongly not recommended.

Mary King's Dead End, Edinburgh

When the plague raged in Scotland, the authorities of Edinburgh decided to move all the sick to a securely fenced old area so that the infection would not spread. In principle, they succeeded and the number of cases of plague gradually began to decline.

But Mary King's cul-de-sac, named after a little girl who died here, soon gained notoriety. Ghostly silhouettes are constantly seen on ancient streets, in local houses the temperature sometimes drops sharply for no reason, and animals are terribly afraid to enter some rooms. If you're in Scotland, visit this cul-de-sac! Despite the fact that the scariest places on planet Earth often evoke fear for some natural reason, Mary King's dead end is clearly not one of them.

Catacombs of Paris

In 1780, the glorious city of Paris was shocked by unpleasant news: the wall of the local cemetery, which separated the city of the living from the city of the dead, collapsed. And then it began... When the rains finally washed away the soil, the streets of Paris were flooded with pieces of corpses, bones and scraps of old clothing. After all, people have been buried in this place for centuries!

What should I do? The only solution was to collect mortal remains, wash them and store them in the old city catacombs. The amount of work was monstrous: when modern researchers roughly counted the number of bones, it turned out that at least six million people were buried there!

Being in the catacombs is quite creepy: skulls are grinning on all sides, the twilight creates a strange feeling that there are many people around you... By the way, the list of “25 most terrible places on the planet”, compiled by American amateurs, puts these catacombs in seventh position.

Death Road, Borneo

Many people still consider the Japanese to be nice people, on whose heads the Americans dropped atomic bombs for no reason at all. Of course, we will not discuss the ethical side of the US action, but the Japanese themselves are not without sin...

For example, there is one road on the island of Borneo. It is famous for the fact that Japanese soldiers drove almost 2.5 thousand Australian and American prisoners along it. Of these, only six people survived. They were able to outlive their comrades only because they managed to escape. The Japanese soldiers tortured and starved all the rest to death.

A photograph of John Tulloch, a retired military man, is widely known. It shows ghostly silhouettes of people walking doomedly along the road. Be that as it may, this place evokes a depressing and gloomy feeling even on a bright day.

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1. Island of the Dolls (Mexico City, Mexico)

According to legend, half a century ago a girl drowned here, and fisherman Julian Santana Barrera found a doll at the site of her death (they say it was his daughter). Julian decided that her soul now lived in the doll, picked up the toy and hung it on a tree. So the fisherman began collecting dolls from all over the area, moving to the island and leaving his family.

For tourists: You can stay overnight right in Julian’s hut; his 6-year-old daughter (a huge doll) will sleep on the bed next to you. But when dusk comes, no boat will be nearby, and you will be surrounded by thousands of doll eyes - you have yourself to blame.

2. Catacombs of the Capuchins (Palermo, Italy)

Burial for 8 thousand people. Philanthropists, local elite in the 18th–19th centuries. - everyone wanted to be buried here. Maupassant wrote: “Their (dead) heads are terrible, their mouths seem to be about to speak, and they all seem engulfed in inexpressible, inhuman horror.”

For tourists: You can visit this ominous place on any day except Sunday. Just don’t get lost in the museum, otherwise we know a story about a man who drank heavily and fell asleep there, who, after he was discovered, spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

3. Haw Par Villa Park (Singapore)

The 77-year-old Haw Par Villa theme park is the polar opposite of Disneyland. How do you like the ten courts of hell? And this is just a way to teach morality to little children. Dismemberment - so that children do not cheat on the exam, and decapitation - so that they do not fool around with books. The place is worth it.

For tourists: Entrance is free, and not everything is so scary - there are also nice sculptures. But be prepared: Eastern mythology is very extraordinary.

4. Nagoro: the village where the big dolls live (Japan)

After the death of many of her neighbors, Ayano Tsukimi decided to make doll replicas of her fellow villagers. Eerie examples of their life are everywhere: fishermen on the banks of the river, students in school rooms, elderly couples on benches near their houses. There are about 350 dolls, but there are only 37 living inhabitants.

For tourists: if you're tired of noisy neighbors who are constantly drilling into something, this is just the perfect find! Welcome to the world of quiet, calm and harmless inhabitants who have only one small drawback - they are not entirely alive.

5. Hanging Coffins (Sagada, Philippines)

In this region, local residents bury their relatives in coffins, but not in the ground, but on a rock. To have the right to be buried in this way, several conditions must be met - to be married and have grandchildren. This tradition is already about 2000 years old: it is believed that the higher the coffin, the closer the soul of the deceased is to heaven

For tourists: If you decide to visit such an unusual cemetery in Sagada, be prepared for the fact that you will only be able to stay in a 2-star hotel, which may easily not have hot water and a shower. But don’t worry - there is a bucket of cold water from which to douse yourself in the cool mountain air, for everyone.

6. “Christ from the Abyss” (San Fruttuoso, Italy)

In 1954, Italian diver Duilio Marcante commissioned a sculpture at the site of the death of his friend, diver Dario Gonzatti, in order to perpetuate his memory. The height of the statue is about 2.5 meters. The result of the work evokes conflicting emotions. Algae and corrosion only enhance the effect.

For tourists: Whether you find the monument creepy or beautiful (or both), it's certainly worth taking the 55-foot dive for an absolutely unforgettable selfie.

7. Smoking ghost town of Centralia (USA)

The coal-rich city flourished until 1962, when a sudden fire occurred. Residents were not particularly worried until 10 years later when they began to fall into burning cracks in the asphalt. The government began evacuating mortally frightened people. And today the population of the city is 7 people.

For tourists: If you decide to visit the real Silent Hill, see the destroyed buildings, the collapsed and cracked sidewalk, the route of Route 61 filled with graffiti - do not forget for a minute why the city was empty (although the white smoke from underground will definitely remind you).

8. Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstätten (Germany)

The history of this hospital would be the envy of any horror film: a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, a hospital for the military, where Adolf Hitler was treated. Today several hospital wards

Travel agencies are exhausted, trying to attract travelers and increase their sales. But often popular tourist destinations are so banal and boring! Excursions, attractions... You will get similar impressions from a trip to. Want real adventure? There are corners of the planet that make your blood run cold! Especially for you, we have collected the TOP 20 most terrible places in the world. You will remember this trip for a long time!

As you know, the Middle Ages were a dark and dangerous time. The plague, which was nicknamed the “Black Death” because it wiped out entire cities, wars on religious grounds - all this made the life of a medieval person short. And since European countries are quite small in area, the places used as cemeteries threatened to cover their entire territory.

Therefore, in those days there was an eerie custom of secondary burial. The decayed bones were taken straight from the graves, and a new dead person was placed in the vacant place. Ossuaries were used to remove dilapidated remains.

The famous Czech landmark - the church “Kostnice v Sedlci”, or simply “The Ossuary”, was such a repository. But what distinguished it was its unusual “designer” solution - the remains of the dead not only lay in dark basements, they made almost the entire interior decoration of the church. They say that it took about 40,000 bones.

Today the Ossuary is a very popular place. Looking at the photographs, you can admire its elegant interior. But when they get there in real life, most people stop perceiving the church from an aesthetic point of view. The depressing feeling does not leave throughout the entire excursion. Somewhere in the abdomen, a dense ball of animal horror begins to arise from the proximity of thousands of decayed bodies and the gloomy shadow of death hovering in the air.

  • Address: Zámecká, 284 03 Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
  • How to get there: from Prague by bus from Florenc bus station to Kutná Hora, from there by minibus to Sedlec. You can also take the train to the main station of Kutna Hora, from there by bus or on foot. In your car from Prague you need to take the E67 highway, then turn towards Kolin and then follow road No. 38.

Mexico is a country of contrasts, where modern science and culture coexist with ancient magical traditions and strange rituals that are still practiced today. You can plunge headlong into the occult practices of the Mexicans in the very center of Mexico City - at the Sonora market, which locals prefer not to talk about out loud. It is often referred to simply as the “witch market.”

The demand for goods sold on the market is quite justified - life is difficult, and many Mexicans, faced with illness or failure, prefer to combine modern medicine with “traditional methods”. Black and white magic, voodoo are not an empty phrase for residents of this country, and witchcraft rituals are still in use.

The witchcraft market is never deserted. In addition to the locals who purchase amulets, horseshoes, candles, various medicinal herbs, carcasses of dried snakes, dried hummingbirds, bat blood, spider legs, skulls, bones of small monkeys for their mysterious purposes, the market is also filled with tourists who want to tickle their nerves and leave Mexico with really interesting souvenirs.

  • Address: Fray Servando Teresa de Mier 419, Merced Balbuena, Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX, Mexico.
  • How get there: Take the bus to the stops "Avenida del canal - Callejón del canal" or "Anillo circunvalación - Fray Servando Teresa de Mier". You can also take the metro - the closest station to the market is Merced, just 300 meters away.

Another awesome attraction in Mexico is the huge museum of mummies. The history of its creation begins in the 19th century, when local authorities decided to increase the size of the treasury and came up with a new tax - on burials. Moreover, payments had to be made not once, which would have been understandable, but constantly. And since the “tenant” of such a grave-place himself, for natural reasons, could not make contributions, the debts fell on the shoulders of his living relatives. If they refused to pay or were absent altogether, the place was vacated and the body of the deceased was exhumed.

If not for this strange practice, Mexicans might never have known that the climatic conditions and composition of the soil in the Guanajuato area contribute to the natural process of mummification of bodies buried here. Not only skin, but even clothing were preserved on the remains. In addition to the scientific justification for the appearance of mummies, there are others, mystical ones - for example, that the dead did not want to decompose because they were outraged by the injustice of tax legislation.

Cemetery collections operated from 1865 to 1958, and during this time more than 100 mummies were exhumed - they formed the main “fund” of the museum. At the same time, the museum itself arose spontaneously - previously the bodies were simply kept in crypts near the cemetery, but over time the number of tourists wanting to see the terrible dead increased so much that the city authorities decided to organize such excursions officially.

  • Address: Explanada del Panteón Municipal s/n, Centro, Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico.
  • How to get there: Guanajuato is located 350 kilometers from Mexico City. You can get there by bus - the journey will take about 5 hours. The Museum itself is located next to the Panteón cemetery, and can be reached on foot from any part of the city.

In the very heart of Scotland there is another attraction that terrifies tourists - an underground quarter shrouded in dark legends.

The history of Mary King's puffin dates back to the Middle Ages. Once upon a time, a plague raged in Scotland, as well as throughout Europe - the only salvation from the epidemic was to protect healthy people from the sick. As a result, everyone who showed suspicious symptoms was sent to a “locked city”, which became their final refuge.

The dead end is named after the little girl Mary Ann - her parents sent her to this terrible place when she got sick. At the dead end, the room where, according to legend, Mary lived out her days, is still preserved - it is full of toys and dolls that their owner will never need again.

Now the cul-de-sac is a popular tourist spot, but local residents claim that sometimes at night there are groans in the cul-de-sac, which can easily be confused with the howling of the wind. Who knows if Mary King has left her last abode?

  • Address: 2 Warriston's Close, Edinburgh EH3 5LG, UK.
  • How to get there: by train, bus or taxi. We advise you to prefer public transport to a personal car due to possible parking problems.

A gloomy French landmark that will make your blood run cold is the Parisian catacombs. They are a network of tunnels about 200-300 kilometers long and originated in the 16th-17th centuries, when large quantities of limestone were required to build Parisian cathedrals.

In the 17th century, the quarries were closed because they posed a threat of collapse—many blocks could go underground. Soon the tunnels began to be used for burials, since during epidemics the authorities prohibited burying the dead within the city. According to average estimates, more than 6 million people were buried in the Paris catacombs.

The walls of the tunnels from the bases to the vaults are lined with bones and skulls, so walking through them is not easy for many tourists. Many people lose their nerves during such an excursion.

  • Address: 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, Paris, France.
  • How to get there: It is best to go by metro (the nearest station is “Denfert-Rochereau” on lines M4, M6) or by buses No. 38 and No. 68.

Italy is not only about fragrant spaghetti and Federico Fellini films; this country also has many attractions that are not customary to talk about out loud. One of them is the island of Poveglia, which received the nickname “Island of Death” from local residents. And they had good reasons to call it that!

People left the island in the 14th century, and since then it has not been inhabited. At the beginning of the 20th century, a hospital for the mentally ill was built there, shrouded in the most terrible legends - they say that insane people were subjected to inhuman torture and medical experiments. There are ancient legends about the “Island of Death”: in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, this place served as a place of exile for the sick - plague sufferers and lepers. They were taken there and left to their fate - most often merciless.

In the middle of the last century, there were even rumors that mentally ill people locked in a hospital saw the ghosts of people who had died there before. Whether this is true or not is impossible to verify. Today the island is abandoned, but attracts many tourists - the building of the old hospital still stands, and there are quite a lot of people who want to wander through its creepy corridors. This place is literally located on bones - according to some estimates, up to 160 thousand unfortunates found their final refuge there.

  • Address: Poveglia, Venice, Italy.
  • How to get there: The mysterious place is located just 200 meters from another Italian island - Lido. To visit Poveglia, get to the Lido and rent a boat.
  • How to get: visiting Poveglia is only possible with special permission from the Commune of Venice. The request is processed within 10 months, so plan your trip in advance.

The turbulent waters of the ocean often brought death to ships - unpredictable storms and the intricate structure of the underwater bottom with its rocks and reefs often caused the death of ships and their crews. Shipwrecks happen all over the world, but there are places where their number far exceeds the statistical average. One of them is the “Skeleton Coast,” which the people of Namibia have considered a cursed place from time immemorial and even call it “The Land That God Created in Wrath.”

The reasons why many ships sink off this coast have both scientific and mystical versions. Some believe that the whole thing is due to strong undercurrents, due to which ships are carried onto sharp rocks, others are sure that a deadly curse has been placed on the territory.

Be that as it may, this coast is really strewn with huge skeletons - the decayed and wind-dried skeletons of crashed ships. In earlier times, before the increase in tourist flow, real human skeletons of dead sailors could be found on this shore. But now, of course, the likelihood of seeing something like this is extremely low.

  • Address: the beginning of the coast is north of Swakopmund, the end is at the mouth of the Cunene River in Angola.
  • Coordinates: 21°47’29.7″S, 14°00’26.8″E.
  • How to get there: by plane to the nearest airport in Walvis Bay (332 km south) or by Intercape and Ekonolux bus from Windhoek.

There are many attractions in Japan, and many of them are even close to each other. For example, at the foot of Mount Fuji there is one of the darkest places in the country - the dense Aokigahara forest.

It gained its notoriety after hundreds of suicides that were committed on its territory by the Japanese. Among the dead were not only local residents, but also visitors from other areas. The reason why exactly the Aokigahara forest turned into such a sad and terrible place is unknown. Perhaps the dense growth of trees with numerous intertwining branches simply turned out to be the most convenient for this.

Because of the canopies, there is constant twilight in Aokigahara, and because of the dense volcanic rock of the soil, compasses do not even function there - all this, coupled with fifty scary stories and the regular discovery of new dead people on the territory, makes the forest one of the creepiest places you will ever visit visit.

  • Address: Motosu, Fujikawaguchiko-machi, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi-ken, Japan.
  • How to get there: From Tokyo, the Azusa Express runs from Shinjuku Station to Otsuki Station. Then you need to change to the Fujikyuko Aeroexpress and get to Kawaguchiko Station. From there there are buses to the forest.

Varanasi is a holy city located on the banks of the Ganges River. According to legend, it is the center of the Universe, created by Shiva himself, and the Hindus who died there will occupy a more advantageous position during their next rebirth in the Samsara cycle. That is why Varanasi has become a center of pilgrimage and is especially in demand among the elderly and sick, anticipating an imminent death.

As the Hindu religious scripture says, the body of the deceased in Varanasi should be burned and the ashes scattered over the waters of the Ganges River. As a result, what tourists see when they come to this holy place is simply terrifying - the crematorium smokes 365 days a year, the entire city is covered in a dense veil of smog, and on the streets there is no hiding from the heavy smell of burnt human flesh that permeates everything around.

For the impressionable, it’s better to visit other Indian attractions, but for those who like to tickle their nerves and at the same time test their stomachs’ strength (seriously, try to eat at least something while inhaling the aromas of this city), Varanasi is the place to be.

Another attraction of Mexico, after visiting which many tourists suffer from nightmares for a long time, is the “Island of Dolls”, which looks as if you were on the set of another horror film. Its creator is a hermit named Julian Santana Barrera, who spent half a century collecting broken and discarded dolls and then nailing them to the trees of the island.

In the past, Julián Santana Barrera was a fisherman. One day a little girl drowned on the lake - this story greatly shocked him. Soon after the funeral, he discovered a doll near the shore and decided that the spirit of the girl had entered into it. She became the first in his collection, after which the former fisherman became obsessed with the idea of ​​collecting as many dolls as possible to honor the souls of the dead children.

When the government began cleaning up the reservoirs in 1991, a strange collection was discovered - by that time it already contained more than 1,000 exhibits. In 2001, Julian Santana Barrera died - they say he drowned in the same lake where a little girl died many years ago. After his death, the island gained even greater fame.

  • Address: Parque Ecolohico de Xochimilco, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
  • How to get there: From the Tasqueña metro station (line 2) there is a light rail (Tren Ligero) to the Xochimilco station. You can take a boat from the pier in Xochimilco.

Another gloomy place shrouded in secrets is the Manchac Swamp, which occupies several hundred hectares of the state of Louisiana. Swampy swamps, overgrown with huge cypress trees and infested with alligators, are not only gloomy, but also dangerous. Going there alone is extremely risky.

There are many legends about the swamps; they have inspired dozens of mystical writers, for example, Anne Rice, popular at the end of the 20th century, the author of the famous filmed book “Interview with the Vampire.” Recent discoveries by archaeologists have allowed scientists to make an amazing discovery - the dead buried in the swamps of swamps do not decompose, and the dead who died more than two thousand years ago are indistinguishable from those who died last week.

  • Address: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
  • How to get there: There are no beaten excursion paths. The nearest settlement is the township of Laling, which is about two hours away from the regional center of Baton Rouge.

The famous Exclusion Zone, which was forbidden for many years, is now a fairly popular tourist destination - in the last decade, agencies have emerged that organize excursions to this gloomy place. They say that the background radiation is now safe, and all that threatens you is a dose of adrenaline.

Indeed, it is an eerie sight - a dead city, where everything remains as it was when people were alive. There are dishes on the tables, long-spoiled food in the refrigerators, everything is covered with a layer of dust and rust. Be sure to visit Pripyat if you want to know how tragic the Earth will look when the era of humanity approaches its end.

  • Address: Pripyat, Kyiv region, Ukraine.
  • How to get there: by private transport or on excursion buses.
  • How to get: Pripyat is located in the Exclusion Zone, in a closed area, access to which is provided only by passes. You can legally visit the city only as part of excursion programs.

The next dark attraction on our list is the ossuary located in the Portuguese city of Evora. This chapel, built in the 1500s, attracts tourists with its unusual interior decoration - its walls are completely lined with human bones and skulls.

The idea of ​​​​creating such an eerie church belongs to the medieval Franciscan monks, who thus decided to remind the inhabitants of the country that earthly existence is transitory, and sooner or later everyone faces the same end. Above the entrance they hung a skeleton, as well as an inscription in Latin, translated as “We, the bones that lie here, are waiting for you.”

The instructions of the monks are still relevant today - every year a large number of tourists visit the eerie Portuguese landmark to reflect on the eternal and tickle their nerves.

  • Address: Praça 1 de Maio, Evora, Portugal.
  • How to get there: by plane to Portela International Airport in Lisbon. From there by bus or car (the journey will take 2-3 hours). You can also travel by train from Évora train station.

Quite ordinary at first glance, the Church of St. George in the Czech village of Lukova is one of the darkest and most impressive reminders of how fragile and unreliable our life is, how nothing can save us if evil fate is destined for us.

In 1968, during an ordinary sermon in the chapel, the roof collapsed - none of the parishioners who came to church that day survived. This terrible event shook the public so much that the church was closed - since then not a single service has been held in it.

The church was empty until art student Jakub Hadrava installed rather gloomy figures in it, whose faces were covered with veils. These statues “sit” in the place of the parishioners, as if forever frozen in their silent prayer, not saved, but not sunk into oblivion.

After the installation of the statues, the church turned into one of the popular tourist places, the visit of which makes you shiver. Travelers who have been there notice that, despite the simplicity of the Czech artist’s plan, his installation looks simply creepy - it is recommended to visit it only during the daytime.

  • Address: Lukova, Pilsen region, Czech Republic.
  • How to get there: From Karlovy Vary you need to take a bus to the city of Manetin, and from there you need to take a taxi or rent a car.
  • How to get: The church is closed almost all the time; to visit you need to make an agreement with the administration.

Another eerie attraction is located in the city of Lome. This is a magical market where you can buy anything - from a dried rabbit's foot to an elephant's foot, a crocodile mummy or a monkey embryo. An unimaginable number of amulets, animal skulls, skins - all this looks truly frightening for an unprepared tourist.

Moreover, traders often come to the market with goods that are not yet ready for sale and begin to cut up or skin the carcasses of animals right in the middle of the day in front of everyone. So, impressionable people definitely shouldn’t go shopping in such an inappropriate place.

  • Address: right in the center of Lomé, the capital of Togo in Africa.
  • How to get there: by plane to Lome airport. Mainly French and Ukrainian airlines fly there, so the route will have to be planned with transfers.

Another place that can scare even the most callous and unimpressive tourist is an ancient cemetery in Peru. It is also known as the "Valley of Death".

The tribes who lived in Nazca had a strange custom of burying their dead in open graves. The dead were given different positions (both lying and sitting) and left under the rays of the scorching sun, which soon burned all the flesh, revealing white bones. You can still see the mummies in their original tombs today - they are still sitting there, smiling with toothless mouths, even their hair preserved thanks to special embalming methods.

  • Address: The cemetery is located on the southern coast of Peru, 30 kilometers south of the city of Nazca and 380 kilometers southeast of the capital Lima.
  • How to get there: to Nazca - by bus, then you can book an excursion or rent transport yourself.

A site that has been the subject of much controversy is the Tophet cemetery in Tunisia. Archaeologists, having found it, were surprised - only babies, stillborn or unborn children were buried on the territory.

Some believed that this cemetery was a consequence of the high infant mortality rate characteristic of past centuries. Others are sure that this is evidence of blood sacrifices common in Tunisia centuries earlier. There is no consensus, but the terrible discovery is a real magnet for tourists.

There are also some pretty creepy ones. For example, Dargavs, known as the “City of the Dead,” is an Alan necropolis of the late 20th century. It looks like a real town, all of whose houses are actually tombs. The place is pretty creepy. In addition, it was there that the film crew of Sergei Bodrov (junior) died during the glacier meltdown in 2002.

  • Address: The burial complex is located near the village of Dargavs in the valley of the Midagrabindon River (North Ossetia).
  • How to get there: You can get there from Pyatigorsk and Vladikavkaz - buses run regularly between the cities.

One of the most terrible and mystical museums, which contains creepy exhibits. Rare pathologies, ancient medical equipment, as well as everything that guidebooks usually softly call “biological exhibits.” It is better not to visit the museum for impressionable people, otherwise nightmares will not be avoided.

Let's sum it up

These were the most terrible places on the planet, which are worth visiting for every lover of nerves. Be sure to visit them, especially if you are a horror fan and don’t miss any new horror movie that comes out in theaters.