There are certainly creepy places all over the world.

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

This list contains 10 creepy places.

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


The most terrible places in the world

10. Manchac Swamp



Ghosts, mass graves, alligators, and scary-looking trees.



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



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

9. Cane Hill Hospital



Cane Hill was a madhouse in Croydon, London. It remained in operation until 1991, when apparently all the patients simply abandoned it.



Some patients were transferred to other safe locations.



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

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8. Ruins of Bangar



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



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



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

7. Centralia



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



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



Danger lurks around every corner of Centralia: toxic gases, crumbling roads and smoking ground beneath your feet.

6. Gates of Hell



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



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



There is currently no information about when the fire will end.

5. Sanctuary of Tophet



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



Historians speculate that these may have been human sacrifices during Punic times, when the site was known as Carthage.



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

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4. Aktun Tunichil Muknal



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



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



Her calcified bones shine like crystal, making the remains even more eerie.

3. Aokigahara



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

Our world is full of stark contrasts. There are beautiful corners in it, as if created by the hands of angels, and there are terrifying places that only an “adrenaline junkie” would risk going to in search of particularly thrilling sensations. We present to you the 10 most terrible places in the world.

10. Catacombs of the Capuchins, Palermo, Italy

These creepy catacombs appeared at the end of the 16th century, when there was no room left for corpses in the cemetery at the Capuchin monastery. At first they were intended exclusively for the burial of monks, but when rumors spread about the natural processes of mummification occurring in the catacombs, local residents also wanted to be buried there (in their best clothes, of course). But such an honor did not fall to everyone, but only to famous townspeople, benefactors and patrons of the monastery.

As a result, additional corridors and rooms (cubicula) had to be dug to bury everyone. Unlike other catacombs, the Capuchin underground cemetery contains only mummified, skeletonized and embalmed bodies. This is the largest necropolis of mummies in the world.

Currently, there are about 8,000 bodies in the underground tombs of the Capuchins. The last burial took place in the 20s of the twentieth century. There are separate corridors, including for monks, for outstanding people, for children under 14 years old, and even for virgins. The corpses are more like museum exhibits, they are dressed in rich outfits, and their bodies are perfectly preserved. Taking photos in one of the most terrible places on Earth is prohibited, and discussions are underway to completely prohibit onlookers from entering the catacombs.

9. Aokigahara, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

This seemingly tranquil forest at the foot of Mount Fuji has an extremely troubled history. It is the second most popular suicide site in the world (after the Golden Gate Bridge). Every year, the Japanese police, together with volunteers, comb the forest, finding from 30 to 80 bodies. Posters are placed along forest paths urging potential suicides to think about loved ones and call for help.

Some believe that one of the most terrible places on the planet is inhabited by demons who whisper thoughts to the poor fellows about giving up their lives. In the Middle Ages, desperate poor people brought their old and infirm relatives to Aokigahara, leaving them to die of hunger. There is a belief that the spirits of the dead never left their final refuge and take revenge on the living for their suffering.

More pragmatic people point out the high density of trees, which is why all sounds in the forest are muffled and it’s easier to get lost there. Many tourists even mark their path with tape or string to make it easier to find their way back later. You shouldn’t rely on the compass, it “goes crazy”, since there are iron ore deposits in this area.

8. Pripyat, Ukraine

The most scary places the world doesn't have to be full of dead people. An abandoned place, full of invisible and therefore even more dangerous radiation, can be no less terrible than the last refuge of suicides.

The city of Pripyat, founded in 1970, was home to about 50,000 people at the time of evacuation after the Chernobyl accident. Since that time, Pripyat has been an uninhabited city, although buildings, furniture and all other signs of life are exactly where the previous owners left them. In classrooms, textbooks are left on desks, rotting dolls lie in toy beds, and photographs hang on peeling walls, reminiscent of a carefree life.

Today, the most famous landmark of Pripyat is the rusty Ferris wheel in the city amusement park. It's unlikely that it will ever work again.

7. Vejo Rönkkönen, Parikkala, Finland

Vejo Rönkkönen was one of the most famous contemporary folk artists in Finland. He was also a recluse and refused to display his works in in public places. He built a collection of over 450 concrete figures of people and animals in his yard, creating an original and rather frightening sculpture garden.

The largest composition is a group of approximately 200 statues arranged in various yoga poses. While there are some disturbing things in this group of sculptures (like false teeth), they are not nearly as scary as the creepy ones on their own. standing statues. How do you like, for example, a statue of a nun with a toothy smile or a figure in a cloak, with black gaps instead of eye sockets, stretching out long arms towards people passing by? Visit Veijo Rönkkönen's garden... if you want to never sleep peacefully again.

Among the scariest places on Earth is a tiny Japanese village with one very noticeable feature: life-size dolls outnumber the living population by almost 100:1.

The dolls are the work of local artist Tsukimi Ayano, who began making replicas of her neighbors after they died or left the village.

Creepy dopplegangers can be seen in various places in Nagoro. Here is a fisherman sitting on the shore, but an elderly couple is frozen in eternal peace on a bench, and here are doll students filling the classroom waiting for the teacher.

There are currently about 350 dolls and less than 40 living people in Nagoro.

5. “Gateway to Hell”, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan

The “hellish” name for the crater, located in the middle of the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan, was given by local population. When Soviet scientists were searching for oil in 1971, they accidentally stumbled upon an underground void (cavity) and a drilling rig collapsed there, creating a crater and releasing dangerous methane gas into the air.

Scientists decided to set the crater on fire to burn off the methane formed in the cavern, and created the Dante Anomaly, which has been burning and burning for the past 46 years.

4. Bhangarh Fort, Rajasthan, India

More reminiscent of a feudal castle than a military fortification, this structure was erected in the 17th century for the grandson of the military leader Man Singh I. Inside it were many buildings, including trading shops, temples and even the palace of the ruler.

According to one of the local legends, an adept of black magic, Singh, fell in love with the beautiful princess Ratnavati. Knowing that the girl would not even look in his direction, the sorcerer gave the princess's maid the enchanted perfume so that she would give it to the princess. However, Ratnavati, having learned who gave her such a gift, broke her spirits. A huge stone emerged from the fragments of the bottle, which rolled towards Sinha's house and crushed him. Before his death, the black magician cursed the inhabitants of Bhangar, promising that they would all die an unnatural death and would not be able to be reborn. A year after Sinha's death, a war broke out in which all the townspeople died.

According to another legend, the fort and its inhabitants were cursed by the hermit Baba Balathi, who did not want the shadow from tallest building the city fell on his home. As a result, all the inhabitants of Bhangar disappeared without a trace.

Now no one is allowed into the fort from sunset to dawn. It is said that those who went to this place after sunset never returned.

3. Changi Beach, Singapore

Now clean and beautiful beach is one of the places where thousands of innocent Chinese met their death at the hands of the Japanese during World War II. This event is known as the Suk Ching massacre (translated from Chinese as “deliverance through purification”).

Mass killings of civilians were carried out with the aim of exterminating all persons leading an anti-Japanese policy, as well as those loyal to the British Empire and the Republic of China.

Japan never apologized for this terrible event.

Many people when visiting Changi Beach hear crying and screams, and at night you can allegedly see pits for burying bodies.

2. Snake Island, Sao Paulo, Brazil

In second place in the top 10 creepiest places on Earth is the island of Queimada Grande, upon which Indiana Jones could confidently moan “Snakes? Why are there always snakes?” If I had time, of course.

It gets its nickname from the insanely high density of golden spearhead snakes (aka bothrops). Research has shown that on average there are from one to five per square meter of the island.

About 11 thousand years ago, sea levels rose and separated Snake Island from mainland Brazil. In isolation, nothing prevented snakes from breeding and reproducing, and adapting to changing conditions.

With no prey left at ground level on the island, the snakes learned to hunt in the treetops and even catch birds in flight. Their poison has become five times stronger than that of their mainland counterparts, it is capable of killing its victim instantly, and also literally melts human flesh. Due to numerous deaths attempting to colonize the island, the Brazilian government prohibited anyone (except scientists) from setting foot on Queimada Grande.

These catacombs are a network of burial chambers that extend 250 km below French capital. They contain the bones of about six million people. They began to be transported there from the end of the 18th century from overcrowded city cemeteries and continued to be transported until the mid-19th century.

Somewhere in the catacombs are the remains of famous Frenchmen - the revolutionary Maximilian Robespierre, the writers Charles Perrault and Francois Rabelais, the mathematician Blaise Pascal.

During World War II, the Resistance headquarters was located in the catacombs of Paris. It is curious that just 500 meters from it there was a secret Nazi bunker.

The temperature in the dark, narrow passages is about 15 degrees Celsius and the cold, coupled with the countless number of skulls, creates an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness. Despite this, there are many tourists in the Parisian catacombs (more precisely, in the 2.5-kilometer part open to the public).

The most terrible places on the planet can be full of bones and skulls, poisonous reptiles and deadly gases. But they have one thing in common: it’s better to read about them ten times than to visit them once.

There are places on this planet that give you goosebumps, and here we will talk about just those. They are as terrible as they are interesting.

1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia

The Mütter Museum of Medical History is a museum of pathologies, antique medical equipment and biological exhibits located in the oldest medical training complex North America. Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls; all sorts of unique exhibits are collected here, for example, the corpse of a woman who turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. There are also Siamese twins with a joint liver, the skeleton of a two-headed child and other creepy exhibits.

2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia

A significant portion of the Japanese naval force now lies at the bottom of the shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, southwest of Hawaii. The blue depths, explored by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and strewn with the wreckage of warships and aircraft carriers sunk in 1944, have become accessible to divers. Although some people are still afraid of the crews who never left their combat posts. Ships and planes have long grown into coral reefs, but still more and more overly curious tourists who stick their noses where they shouldn’t become their victims.

3. Sonora Witch Market in Mexico City, Mexico

The witches of Mexico City, sitting in cramped booths, promise quick relief from poverty and adultery for 10 bucks, and tortured exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds are hung for sale in cages on the walls of the tents. The Sonora market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico City and tourists from distant places who come for fortune telling and promises. better life. This is the place where the entire local population indulges in “supernatural” gizmos, ranging from potions according to ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Die-hard enthusiasts might be able to buy some rattlesnake blood or dried hummingbirds here to tame their luck. But it is worth remembering that witchcraft in Mexico is no joke: the National Association of Witchcraft was involved in the presidential elections in order to use spells to turn them into fair and free ones.

4. Easter Island, Chile

One of the most mysterious places on earth is Easter Island, on which there are huge figures of giants carved from stone, grown into the ground under the weight of millennia. The statues look into the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crimes. But only stone giants we know where the people who installed them disappeared to. On Easter Island no one else knows the secret of making, moving, and installing these giant statues up to 21 meters tall and weighing up to 90 tons. But they were often moved more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where ancient sculptors worked. Now on the island, where a powerful civilization once flourished, there is barely a glimmer of life, and no one knows where the mysterious builders came from and where they then disappeared.

5. Manchac Swamp in Louisiana

Boats carrying tourists sailing through the swamps by torchlight are surrounded by ancient cypress trees and long strings of moss hanging from the cypress branches. The howl heard in the distance may be that of the rou-ga-rou, the Cajun version of the werewolf.

The Manchac Swamp is also called the “ghost swamp.” They are located near New Orleans, and it’s just a goth’s dream. It is said that the swamp was cursed by a voodoo queen when she was captured in the early 20th century. As a result, three villages disappeared here in the hurricane of 1915. The peace of this bird cemetery is disturbed only by periodically floating corpses - a legacy of commercial activity more than 100 years ago. In addition, alligators, of which there are more here than corpses, will not disdain fresh tourist meat.

6. Paris Catacombs, France

Bones and skulls are stacked on both sides of the corridor, like goods in a warehouse - a lot of goods. The air here is dry and carries only the faintest hint of decay. There are also inscriptions here, mainly from the times of the Great french revolution, sending the king and nobles far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs near Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote their famous stories specifically about these dungeons. They stretch for about 187 kilometers under the entire city and only a small part of them is open to the public. The rest are said to be patrolled by the legendary Special Underground Police, although it is more likely done by legions of the dead. Or vampires. Although who will sort them out there, in the end. There have been quarries here since Roman times, and when the cemeteries of Paris overflowed, the tunnels became what they are in 1785.

7. Winchester House, San Jose, California

The “Magic” Winchester House is a colossal structure with many prejudices associated with it. One fortune teller told Sarah Winchester, the heiress of a gun company, that the ghosts of those killed with Winchesters would haunt her unless she left Connecticut for the West and built such a house that it could not be completed in her lifetime. Construction began in San Jose in 1884 and did not stop for 38 years until Sarah died. Now the 160 rooms of the house are haunted by the ghosts of her madness: stairs that go straight to the ceiling, doors that open in the middle of the wall, spider motifs, candelabra, hooks. Since the house was opened to the public, there have been constant complaints about slamming doors, footsteps at night, moving lights, and door handles that turn on their own. Even if tourists don’t believe in ghosts, the place is mind-blowing with its scale.

8. Mary King's Dead End in Edinburgh

Several streets with a dark past hidden beneath Edinburgh's medieval Old Town. The place where plague victims were locked up and left to die in the 17th century is famous for poltergeists. Tourists here are touched on the hands and feet by something invisible. It is believed to be the ghost of Annie, a young girl abandoned there by her parents in 1645. A hundred years later, a period so beloved in scary fairy tales, a large new building was built on the site of Mary King's Dead End. In 2003, the cul-de-sac was opened to tourists, who were attracted by tales of its supernatural spirits.Tourists will be led down stone steps into cramped, depressing alleys.In addition to Annie's room, an exhibition of medieval life and deaths from the plague has been restored. The main thing is not to stop, especially when you feel the icy breath of death.

9. Occult Thelema Abbey in Sicily

Aleister Crowley is perhaps one of the world's most vile occultists, and this stone farmhouse, filled with lurid pagan frescoes, was once the satanic orgy capital of the world. At least that's what they thought in the 1920s. Crowley is known mainly for his fans like Marilyn Manson and for the fact that he appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley founded the Abbey of Thelema, named after the utopia described in Rabelais' Gargantua, whose motto was "Do what thou wilt." It became a free love commune. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the “Nightmare Room,” where, high on heroin and marijuana, they stared at murals of earth, heaven and hell. After a popular English dandy died in the abbey, the press created a scandal and forced Mussolini to close the sharashka. Infamous underground director Kenneth Angier unearthed the story in 1945 and made a film there that later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is dilapidated and overgrown with grass. But several frescoes with which Crowley intimidated his followers were preserved inside.

10. Chernobyl in Ukraine

In Ukraine, arriving in the abandoned city of Pripyat, tourists find themselves in an exclusion zone. Here, all things are thrown in a hurry and left from that terrible year 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes forever. Apartments are wide open, in kindergartens ivy climbs along the painted walls, toys are scattered, newspapers are left unread on the kitchen tables. The swing, still creaking, sways in the yard under the gusts of a dead wind.

Now that the radiation level has dropped to a level that is safe for a short visit, the Chernobyl zone has been opened to tourists. Excursions to Chernobyl are almost the same, since movements in the exclusion zone are severely limited. As a rule, tourists leave Kyiv by bus, then walk to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, take a tour of it, and look at the “Sarcophagus”. You can wander the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the sites of the infected Vehicle. And also meet with local self-settlers, residents of the “forbidden zone”.

There are many beautiful things on Earth, beautiful places, which are worth visiting while your eyes are seeing and your feet are walking. And there are about as many corners, nooks and objects that to a good person should be bypassed by the tenth road. It’s doubly terrible that tickets and tours to many of the most terrible places on the planet are officially on sale travel companies and museum administrations. Choosing a direction unusual journey, do not risk ruining your vacation bliss by visiting at least one of them, even if you got a last-minute ticket 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 top is almost more dangerous for a visitor than highest point Everest.

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

Mount Washington's winter wonderland is deadly for the casual hiker and the deliberate natural beauty photographer. And incredibly desirable for the one who “ordered” suicide by being blown away by a hurricane wind into a prickly ice snowdrift.

2. Poisonous beauties of the Danakil Desert

We understand - leisure, new impressions, but not as much! - we told our friends who were packing for a vacation in the Ethiopian desert, but they didn’t 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 photos 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 cosmic surface of Danakil, you don’t need to fly to Mars. There is almost no oxygen to breathe over the volcanic wasteland, but there is enough scorching air for everyone and everything, saturated with fetid gases generated by the boiling earth underfoot and melting stones.

Traveling through the Danakil Desert is, to say the least, unhealthy. Fifty-degree heat, the risk of stepping on an awakening volcano yawning with scarlet lava and getting cooked, the risk of inhaling sulfur vapor for the rest of your life and making it short. In addition, in the Afar region, semi-wild tribes of Ethiopian citizens periodically go on the warpath for water and food. Ten-year-old boys with guns and machine guns can become another of the world's most terrible surprises that await a traveler in a 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 a state that calls itself "Nujini", the city of Port Moresby is the most dangerous of the world's capitals. From the sea and from the sky, the New Guinea “pearl” looks quite attractive:

In fact, it's like this:

In Port Moresby, such helmsmen of the “banana republic” as the president and ministers live and work, and bandit brigades control the real life of the city. For a white man, the capital of PNG is a terrible place. It’s the same as putting an intellectual in prison with young children.

Papuans in the forest kill strangers for food, and this is explained by the lack of protein in their traditional diet. Papuans in the city are cheating tourists because of laziness and unemployment. Spoiled by Australian handouts, the Aborigines do not want to work, and even if they want to, it is very difficult to find work. There is only one thing left to do - join a gang and get money for booze, drugs and girls by hunting suckers. People are killed in Port Moresby 3 times more often than in Moscow. These guys don’t care about the police, because they are bought or intimidated. Look at their faces and never again dream of becoming the second Miklouho-Maclay, because they will eat you like Cook.

Every person burdened with a household has dark corners, not only in his biography, but also in his home. This is not necessarily a closet with teaching spiders to intimidate Pinocchio. In a dark corner there may be, for example, a stash - something valuable that, unlike a person, is not afraid of darkness. There are such mega-corners in every country on every continent. Live without damned places no culture can. The scariest places on the planet compete with each other in the intensity of quiet horror, like economies, brands or football leagues. The most terrible places attract guests - from among the bourgeoisie who are accustomed to seeing horror on TV. Life would be boring without such corners of the Earth. Like in an apartment without dark corners.

4. Forest of cultural suicides

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

An approximate count of those who have gone into the forest forever has been carried out since the early 1950s. Over the course of half a century, Aokigahara took in 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 shadows that even on a sunny afternoon you can easily find a terrible place here, shrouded in damp grave twilight.

Walking through the terrible Aokigahara forest, a traveler will stumble upon not only corpses, skulls and nooses. And also 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 national attention and since then, every year government units are sent to clear the forest of “fresh” corpses. The area of ​​the tract is 35 square kilometers. Over the course of a year, from 70 to 100 newly arrived suicide victims “ripen” on tree branches.

Several years ago, looters appeared in Aokigahara, cleaning out the pockets of hanged men and tearing not ropes from their necks, but gold and silver chains. They manage not to get lost. Remain meek and optimistic.

5. Beer, glass, skeletons

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

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

In 1870, the new, secular owners of the lands and buildings of the old monastery decided to restore order to the ossuary and invited a local creative artist, a carver named Rint, to do this. With the deadly 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 organized the deposits of bones and skulls, but also built from them a massive coat of arms of the owner’s noble family and a magnificent chandelier with garlands. Memento mori, pani ta panove!

The eerie chapel is open to visitors drunk on beer and Becherovka seven days a week.

6. The Museum of Horror Stories is a maniac’s dream, the pride of doctors

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

Top positions in the Mütter Museum are occupied by such interesting exhibits as a wax sculpture of a female unicorn; a ten-foot human intestine that contained 40 pounds of it; 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; conjoined liver of conjoined twins; a piece of the brain of Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield

There are rumors that something out of the ordinary happens at the museum at night - either scary or funny.

7. Monkey for the enlightened

The Tibetan Drapchi Prison, which is located on the road from Lhasa Airport to the city of Lhasa, is considered the most terrible penitentiary institution in the world. In Drapchi, the evil Chinese have been pedantically rotting the rebellious Tibetan lamas since 1965. Here, behind the thorns, there are more monks than in any single Buddhist monastery.

The Chinese occupation authorities cynically call such prisons “ rehabilitation centers" In Drapchi you can get a “stray” bullet in the forehead for looking incorrectly in the direction of the guard. Prison monks are beaten mercilessly for the slightest protest. One of the regime violators spent so long in solitary confinement that he forgot how to speak. Another has been languishing in prison for 20 years for distributing a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition, Buddhists in the Chinese Gulag are forced to take classes on scientific communism. If you haven’t learned your lesson, you’ll get hit in the chakras with a batog. If you don't come to class, try some bamboo porridge. Is this prospect really scary?

Lyrical digression: wandering through the black Japanese forests with hanged men and museums with skulls and intestines, we, romantics, completely forgot 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. What saves us, romantics, from visiting such “horror films” is the holy faith in justice and neatness. appearance chaste eyes. As for the civil war, I remember that the most terrible, bloody and unusually stupid of them was in Rwanda. Creepy African country, where we are going today.

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

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

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

In barracks designed to house 500 prisoners, more than 6,000 Rwandan barmalei are languishing, waiting 8-10 years (!) for trial. They are tormented by hunger, so biting off a cellmate’s heel or ear is normal. There is nowhere to lie down, so constant standing causes prisoners’ feet to rot, which doctors have to amputate without anesthesia. The floor is wet and dirty, the stench spreads for half a mile, disgracing the peacekeepers capital city Kigali. Every eighth barmali dies in this prison without waiting for a verdict - from violence or disease. And neither God nor the devil forbid that an intelligent white man get into Guitarama...

9. Home of the Slumdog Millionaire

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

The main character of the film “Slumdog Millionaire” comes from the “city within the city” of Dharavi. Over a million Hindus and Muslims live here on 175 hectares of dirty land. Their bread is recycling city garbage, which is brought here in tens of tons every day. Residents of terrible slums are recycling plastic, cans, glass and waste paper. Their barefoot children and wives rummage through Mumbai's trash bins in search of anything they can recycle.

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

10. Capital of Incessant Violence

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

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

Church of St. George, Czech Republic

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

Hashima Island, Japan.

Hashima is a former coal mining settlement founded in 1887. He was considered one of the most densely populated areas on the ground - at coastline 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.

Hanging Coffins of Sagada, Philippines

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.

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany

Old Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

Processions in this cemetery took place for almost four centuries (from 1439 to 1787). More than 100 thousand dead are buried on a relatively small plot of land, and the number of gravestones reaches 12,000. More ancient
Cemetery workers covered the burials with earth, and new tombstones were erected in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 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.

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.

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 Venetian lagoon, northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times the island was used as a place of exile for plague patients, and therefore up to 160,000 people were buried on it. 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-great-grandfather.

Overtoun Bridge, Scotland

The old arch bridge is located near the Scottish village of Milton. In the middle of the 20th century, strange things began to happen on it: dozens of dogs suddenly 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 Cave, Belize

Actun Tunichil Muknal is a cave near the city of San Ignacio, Belize. Is archaeological site Mayan civilization. Located on the territory natural park Mount Tapira. 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, Ireland

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.

Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru

The Chauchilla Cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on south coast 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.

Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia

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

Snake Island, Brazil

Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands of 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.

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

The largest monument in Bulgaria, located on Mount Buzludzha with a height of 1441 meters, was built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Its construction took almost 7 years and involved more than 6 thousand workers and experts. The interior was partly 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.

City of the Dead, Russia

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

Unfinished subway in Cincinnati, USA

Abandoned subway depot in Cincinnati - project built in 1884. But after the First World War and as a result of changing demographics, the need for the 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.