The scariest places on earth. The most terrible places on the planet (53 photos)

Our world is beautiful and amazing, a lifetime is not enough to see all the beauties of the planet. However, some people like to tickle their nerves and see something frightening with their own eyes. Many believe in the supernatural and otherworldly, so they visit these creepy and dangerous places shrouded in mystery.

Aptly named the “Gate to Hell,” Turkmen Darvaz is a fiery hole in the ground that has been burning steadily for more than four decades, with no sign of stopping. It all started because of a mistake by workers during exploration of underground natural gas fields. In the end, they decided it was safer to flare the gas in 1971 than risk it to the people trying to get it. Darvaz is one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth.

Years ago, hundreds of ships moored at this busy Aral Sea fishing port, but over time, the water receded 4 meters after Soviet engineers changed the course of the rivers feeding this large port.

Every year in the valley of Jatinga, India, there is a real "birdfall". Migratory and local birds commit mass suicide here: just after sunset, hundreds of birds fall from the sky and crash to death on trees and walls. The birds tend to be disorientated by the mist that comes from the monsoons. Birds are attracted to village lights and fly towards them, sometimes crashing into trees and walls along the way.

12. Ghost Town - Oradour-sur-Glane, France

The village of Oradur in 1944 turned into a ghost - the Nazis shot and burned 642 of its inhabitants (including children and women) in one day. First, they drove the men into the sheds and started shooting at the legs, immobilizing the people, the Nazis doused them with gasoline and burned them. The soldiers locked the women and children in the church. First, asphyxiating gas was let into the building, and then the church was set on fire.

To the west of the city of Cluj-Napoca, an unusual forest spreads - all the trees in it are twisted. An explanation for this phenomenon has not been found; other paranormal phenomena have been recorded in the forest. In 1968, a UFO was photographed here. I even call this place the “Bermuda Triangle of Romania”, people often disappear here.

He is called the most spooky castle Ireland. In the 16th century, the O'Carroll family lived in it, who fought with other Irish clans. The O'Carrolls often invited their enemies to dinner at the castle under the pretext of reconciliation, and then killed them right at the table. Under the dining room was a dungeon (“ubliet”), into which unsuspecting guests fell through a secret door in the floor of the hall. The bottom of the dungeon was strewn with sharp stakes, on which the victims fell. According to some reports, when the castle was restored after a fire in the 20s of the last century, workers found a huge amount of bones in the “ubliet” - it took three wagons to clean the dungeon.

The construction of these houses began in 1978, they were supposed to be a tourist attraction. But in 1980, construction was stopped when the company went bankrupt. During construction, there were several serious accidents and suicides due to the supposedly disturbed spirit of the mythical Chinese dragon. As a result, the village was abandoned and soon became known as a ghost town.

Akodesseva is located in the capital of the Togolese Republic, Lome, a strange and unexpectedly friendly place, which differs from ordinary markets only by a fetishistic afterlife assortment. Mountains here lie the skulls of cattle, the dried heads of monkeys, buffaloes and leopards, and even human bones. The tents of folk healers and healers are popular on the market, where terminally ill people flock in strings.

Centralia was a thriving mining town in Pennsylvania whose population dropped from 1,000 in 1981 to 12 in 2005 and 10 in 2010. The reason for this is the seemingly harmless burning of garbage in a landfill in 1962. 5 firefighters were hired by the city authorities to burn the garbage dump. They set fire to piles of garbage, and then extinguished them. Not completely extinguished garbage provoked an underground fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful, and it burns to this day. Unbearably noxious fumes and poisonous earth forces people to leave the city.

The island of the dolls can be called one of the creepiest sights in Mexico. It is located in one of the districts of Mexico City, which is called Xochimilco and is known to the whole world thanks to the ancient channels of the Aztecs - chinampas, included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. This island is located on one of them. They say that in the middle of the last century, a little girl drowned in a canal near the island, and soon after the accident, old broken dolls thrown into the canal began to swim up to the islet. The hermit Don Julian Santana, who lived on the island, decided that this was a sign and began to catch dolls, and then hang them on trees in order to protect himself from evil and calm the spirit of the dead girl.

This island is located in the East China Sea, about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki. Before the island was settled at the beginning of the 19th century, due to the discovery of coal on it, it was just a piece of rock. Thanks to the coal industry, the construction of houses for miners and their families began. The reef has turned into an artificial island with a diameter of about one kilometer in the perimeter, with a population of 5300 people. By 1974, all the inhabitants left the island due to the dried up fossils, and the city turned into a ghost town. Committee world heritage UNESCO has included this abandoned city in the World Heritage List.

Once it was planned as an advanced city where representatives of the technical intelligentsia would live: engineers, scientists, researchers. It was built around the most modern nuclear power plant at that time. But a combination of circumstances led to the most terrible in history man-made disaster. At the nuclear power plant, there was an explosion and the release of tons of radiation dust that polluted the earth for many kilometers around.

On the island of Luzon in the village of Sagada is one of the creepiest places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. Therefore, this place is called "the hanging coffins of Sagada." 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.

A quarantine station, a common grave for victims of the plague, and more recently, by historical standards, a shelter for the insane - the tiny island of Poveglia, hidden from view in the Venetian lagoon. They say that the island was twice the last refuge for thousands of patients during the black plague epidemics, that its soil is 50% composed of the ashes of burned corpses, that local fishermen bypass the island, afraid to find in their nets a catch from human bones polished by waves, which in In the 20s of the last century, horrific experiments were carried out on mentally ill people here, that the head physician of the psychiatric hospital eventually went crazy from his deeds and committed suicide by jumping from the island bell tower, and a completely mystical version suggests that Poveglia is densely populated the spirits of tortured victims.

Throughout the forest you can find signs with the words: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Please contact the police before you decide to die." Aokigahara Forest is located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji, sacred to every Japanese, on the island of Honshu, and is considered a place where ghosts from all over Japan have gathered. Aokigahara is a popular suicide site among residents of Tokyo and the surrounding area. Between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest each year.

We present to your attention a list of the ten most terrible places on planet Earth. Frost on the skin from one thought to stay in any of them alone with himself. But you don't have to be afraid. After all, no matter how terrible they may seem, they are still part of our world. It is worth noting that we made some of them ourselves ...

Poveglia, Italy

Poveglia is a small island located in the Venetian lagoon in northern Italy. They say that in the middle of the XIV century, when a plague pandemic (Black Death) raged in Europe, the island was used as a place of exile for the sick. It is assumed that up to 160,000 people were buried on it, whose souls supposedly still roam the island. Also aggravating the terrible reputation is the fact that from 1922 to 1968 there was a psychiatric hospital in which a certain doctor allegedly experimented on patients, and later committed suicide.

In 2014, the Italian government announced an auction for a 99-year lease on Poveglia. Visiting the island is strictly limited.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The Hill of Crosses is a shrine, a place of pilgrimage, located 12 kilometers from the city of Siauliai, Lithuania. It is a small hill on which Lithuanian crosses are installed. The exact number of crucifixes is unknown, but it is estimated that there are supposedly about 50,000 of them here. The Hill of Crosses, despite its external similarity, is not a cemetery. According to the belief, the one who leaves the cross here will be pursued by good luck.

Varosha, Cyprus

Varosha is a ghost town in the southern part of the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Until the Turkish invasion in 1974, it was the modern and main tourist center In Cyprus. Its inhabitants fled and did not return after the Turkish army invaded the island in response to a political upheaval in the country. The general public is not allowed to enter Varosha.

Charleville Castle, Ireland

Charleville is a castle built in the Gothic style. Located in County Offaly, near the River Shannon in Ireland. The castle has a not very good reputation and is famous for the ghosts that live in it. The most famous is the ghost of a girl named Harriet, who died here by accidentally falling down the stairs. Charleville Castle has been repeatedly investigated by psychics, as well as groups involved in the study of the paranormal.

Manchak swamps, USA

The Manchak Marshes, also known as the Ghost Marshes, are located in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. According to legend, this place was cursed by a voodoo queen after she was captured at the beginning of the 20th century. Quite large alligators live here and only, occasionally, the remains of bodies that once fled here in the hope of hiding from the owners emerge.

Shades Of Death Road, USA

Fifth place in the ranking of the ten most terrible places in the world is Shades Of Death Road - a seven-mile (11.2 km) road in the center of Warren County, New Jersey, USA. It is the subject of numerous local legends. The road has been linked to unsolved murders that have taken place in its vicinity, as well as to ghosts and other supernatural phenomena.

Pripyat, Ukraine

Aokigahara forest, Japan

Aokigahara or "Suicide Forest" is also known as Jukai - a very dense forest, with total area 35 square kilometers, located at the northwestern foot of Mount Fuji on Japanese island Honshu. It is considered a popular place for suicide, or rather, the second most popular in the world, after one of the most beautiful bridges - the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest each year. According to the method of suicide, drug poisoning and hanging are leading. Also, the Aokigahara forest is associated with Japanese mythology and is traditionally considered the habitat of demons and ghosts.

Catacombs of Paris, France

The catacombs of Paris are the world famous artificial network of winding tunnels under Paris. According to various estimates, their length varies from 187 to 300 kilometers. In fact, this is a huge underground cemetery that stores the remains of about six million people. Currently considered a popular place among tourists, however, only 2 km of underground passages are open to them.

Island of the Dolls, Mexico

Island of the Dolls is located about 18 km from the city of Mexico City. Known primarily for old broken dolls that "decorate" tree branches. According to legend, the island is haunted by the ghost of a drowned girl, who in the 1950s constantly appeared to the Mexican Julian Santana Barrera. Later, for unknown reasons, the man left his family and went to live as a hermit on Mysterious Island. He claimed that he looked for dolls in landfills, fished them out of canals and hung them on trees to appease evil spirits, as well as make peace with a ghost. dead girl. He also stated that supposedly at night, the dolls come to life and walk around the island. Julian drowned in April 2001, his body was found in one of the canals on the island.

Where does everyone go on holiday? That's right, most prefer big cities or resorts, with golden beaches and roaring seas.

However, there are also people for whom it is not enough to warm their bones under the hot summer sun. Adrenaline and extreme lovers will never choose such a boring pastime for them.

It is they who know that in Paris you can visit not only the Eiffel Tower, but also the famous catacombs, that the forests of Japan are full of not only beautiful sakura, and that not all houses in the Czech Republic are so beautiful.

And if you belong to people of just this type, then the following article is dedicated to you! Perhaps, after reading, the hands themselves will reach for the suitcase and phone - rather order a ticket.

So, the top 10 scariest places on the planet - enjoy reading!

The scariest of abandoned places in Russia is all littered with animal remains. Cattle and wild animals that wandered here die for unknown reasons. The geologists who conducted research here noted a sharp deterioration in their health - pressure drops, headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness. In this ominous place, many human corpses were found, as well as the corpses of birds and animals. All this is explained by the fact that the air contains hydrogen sulfide, carbon disulfide and carbon dioxide, which slowly kill all living things. And even realizing that it is necessary to leave here urgently, not every person or animal is able to do this.

In the middle of the 19th century, Thomas Mutter founded the Museum of Medicine, which later became a clear example of all the most disgusting and terrible things that can happen to a person.

For fourteen dollars you get not only entrance ticket, but also the opportunity to see with your own eyes a wide variety of anomalies, ancient medical equipment and biological samples with varying degrees of horror.

It remains a mystery why exactly, but the most popular items are:

• the figure of a "unicorn woman" made of wax;
• the remains of a "soapy girl" (the body, in the process of being in the ground, became a fat wax);
• a tumor that was removed from the President of the States - Cleveland;
• fused organs of twins;
• and part of the brain that belonged to Charles Guiteau - the assassin of President Garfield.

8. Danakil

This Ethiopian desert has a truly "poisonous" splendor. All those risk takers who have visited Danakil claim to have been to "Hell on Earth". And, this is not surprising, because the desert in the northern part of Ethiopia can rightly be considered one of the most terrible places in the world.

A short walk through the unearthly expanses of Danikil will more than replace your flight to the red planet. Oxygen is almost completely absent, but the burning air filled with stench is enough for everyone. It owes its origin to the red, boiling earth and stones that melt underfoot.

The “bonus” is the heat, about fifty degrees, the roulette on the topic “step on the volcano or not”, and a unique opportunity to breathe sulfur fumes, and in huge quantities.

If you believe that there is an underworld, then the door to it is located in the Karakum desert in Turkmenistan. This chilling place is a huge reservoir of natural gas measuring 70 by 60 meters and a depth of about 32 meters. In 1971, Soviet scientists discovered a large accumulation of underground gas. During the drilling of an exploratory well, gas deposits in the pit collapsed, which provoked the appearance of a fault and a dangerous gas leak - colorless, odorless, but poisonous and flammable. Therefore, it was decided to set fire to the gas so that it would all burn out. But no one expected it to burn for so long. The flame has been raging for a little over 40 years and today there is no information when it will go out.

AT Czech Republic in the city of Kutna Hora is the most terrible and strange landmark of Western Europe - the Church of All Saints. Once there, visitors can't help feeling that they are not in a church, but in a den of cannibals. The chapel is located on the territory of the cemetery and more than 40,000 human bones are stored inside the building. But the most amazing thing is that these are not just piles of bones, the interior of the chapel is decorated with human remains, starting from the altar and ending with a chandelier with plafonds topped with skulls. Background to this mysterious place sends us to 1278, when one of the monks of the monastery brought a few handfuls of earth from Jerusalem and scattered it around the cemetery. The rumor about the holy land instantly spread, and many residents of central Europe sought to find their eternal rest here. The events of the next century - endless epidemics and wars led to the fact that the burials grew rapidly, so they had to be buried in two or three floors. At the beginning of the 15th century, in order to free up space for fresh burials, a gothic cathedral. The remains were removed from the graves, which had not been cared for for a long time and stored in the tomb of this church. This process continued throughout the next century, until one half-blind monk decided to put things in order in the tomb. He bleached all the remains in a chlorine solution and carefully folded 2 central and 4 corner pyramidal structures from human remains. In 1870, the church and the monastery lands were purchased by the noble Schwarzenberg family, who subsequently changed the decor of the cathedral, turning to the skilled woodcarver Frantisek Rint. He created the interior of the bones, which has survived to this day.

This huge house has a bad reputation. After all, the inhabitants of this strange house for a long time was Sarah Winchester, surrounded by a whole family of ghosts.

The history of this terrible place began many years ago, when the charming mistress of this estate lost her beloved husband, William Winchester. A few years before this sad event, a very young daughter died in this family. All these tragic events naturally left a heavy imprint on Sarah's psyche. The heartbroken widow turned to a Boston medium for help. After "talking" with the spirit of her husband, he told Sarah about the curse that lies on their family because of the rifle that claimed the lives of thousands of people. On the advice of a medium, the inconsolable widow bought a house and set about rebuilding it, the main condition was not to stop construction, otherwise death awaits her. Crazy construction lasted almost 38 years. The architecture of the house is so insane that not every person can withstand being in this building for a long time. And all because Sarah was trying to "confuse" the ghosts so that they would not find her. The house has more than 160 rooms, about 50 fireplaces, almost 10,000 windows, 40 stairs (some of them end in a wall or rest against the ceiling), and about 2,000 doors. Narrow, low corridors meander like snakes, the doors on the upper floors open outward, there are many secret windows and doors. Therefore, it is very important for visitors to this house to be attentive and keep up with the group, otherwise you can easily go outside directly from the third floor or find yourself in the kitchen, which is located one floor below through a window in the floor. Every year, thousands of tourists visit this house, although many become unwell there, and children begin to cry. Indeed, according to rumors, ghosts have not left this house to this day.

It's terrible and mysterious place near New Orleans. The legend says that at the beginning of the last century these places were cursed. And a terrible curse was imposed by one of the fans of the Voodoo cult, who was held captive in this area. Soon a powerful hurricane that hit these places destroyed several nearby villages. Nobody began to restore these villages, it was painfully notorious for these places. And people more and more often began to disappear in the swamp area. An attempt was even made to drain these swamps, but with the start of work, a terrible hurricane hit again and destroyed the workers' settlement to the ground, there were also human casualties. The swampy area is not very attractive for walking anyway, those who get there are immediately seized with inexplicable fear, ringing in the ears, dizziness, legs become wadded ... And the Manchak swamps are an eerie sight - tall gloomy trees covered with moss, protruding snags and tree roots, dark smelly water… dead people. Not even birds fly over this ruined place. Only huge alligators dared to live in such a terrible place. But even knowing the terrible stories associated with the “bog of ghosts”, it attracts fans to get a dose of adrenaline. These daredevils want to see ghosts, restless shadows of the dead who cannot find peace because of a terrible curse. You can only move here by boat, and if someone falls out of it, he has no chance of surviving. Terrible swamps and huge alligators will forever leave the poor fellow in this sinister place.

What do we think of when we hear the word "forest"? That's right, emerald meadows, tall lush trees with mighty branches. Certain living creatures that may meet on our way.

However, Aokigahara does not fit into this rosy picture. And the reason can be understood already from the nickname given to this place - the forest of suicides. And if in other forests you stumble upon birds, squirrels and foxes, then in Aokigahara you will be met only by corpses.

The blood of local residents and tourists invariably excites a huge number of legends associated with this forest that has grown on lava. Sad glory overtook him back in the Middle Ages, when the hungry years drove many people to madness. In desperation, they began to sacrifice their relatives, bringing the weak and old people into the forest, and leaving them there. Cries for help, groans, did not make their way through the dense thickets, and no one could help the doomed. The Japanese will tell you in a whisper that the ghosts of the unfortunate and still take revenge on people for their suffering.

Today, Japan does not suffer from hunger, but the sinister role of Aokigahara has been preserved and does not cease to be relevant. The attractive mysticism of the forest and its maddening silence now attract those people who have decided to commit suicide. The local police annually finds up to a hundred bodies of the unfortunate.

And the beautiful and romantic Venice is also ready to present a lot of mystical things that have been hidden from general curiosity for hundreds of years. And one of the mysteries of the Italian city is the island of Poveglia, or in other words, a “symbol of horror”.

The history of such an ominous place begins at the dawn of the Roman Empire. During that period, the island became the last refuge of a huge number of plague victims who were taken to Poveglia and left there to die.

Since, due to the number of dead, they did not have time to bury them, the bodies were simply set on fire. And it is for this reason that ominous rumors have spread that the land on the island is overflowing with human ashes. According to some reports, about one hundred and sixty thousand infected people lost their lives on Poveglia.

After several centuries, in 1922 it was decided to open a psychiatric hospital on the island. And this is what strengthened the oppressive and gloomy atmosphere of Poveglia several times over. The patients of the hospital constantly complained of unthinkable headaches and that every night the ghosts of the dead came to them, screams and groans were constantly heard ...

Poveglia was abandoned in 1968. Today, no one lives on the island, and even for tourists it is closed. This is related to the fact that locals they do their best to refute the ominous rumors about their island.

However, although access to Poveglia is limited, rumors continue to spread, which means that the mysticism of the terrible island is still alive ...

This place is a few atmospheric medieval streets that are hidden modern city Edinburgh.

The peculiarity of this area lies in the fact that it is completely cut off from the main part of the capital city of Scotland, and is connected with it only by a series of impregnable walls.

From historical sources we can learn that about three hundred and fifty years ago, in the seventeenth century, the Black Death epidemic threatened the complete destruction of the whole of Edinburgh. In an attempt to at least stop the spread of a terrible disease (at that time there could be no thought of completely stopping the plague), local monks raked the streets crowded with dead bodies and burned them outside the city limits.

After some time, the infected began to be isolated in a special infirmary.

And already the chronicles of 1645 told us that the magistrate gave an order to enclose the “plague” quarter with walls in order to try to extinguish the main focus of the epidemic.

And the owner of most of the fenced-off houses was just Mary King, and it was in her honor that the quarter was named.

Literally a hundred years after the raging plague sank into oblivion, a city grew up on the site of the Mary King quarter, which was not interested in the secrets of the past years.
Today, the streets of the plague city are just gloomy tunnels, the walls and ceilings of which are topped with cords and dusty light bulbs. Gloomy lighting pulls out from the veil of darkness the remnants of the once huge stairs, which now will not lead anyone anywhere.

Over the years, this dead end has grown into many rumors and legends. They say that those unfortunates who were doomed to a long and painful death in their "stone trap" are the daredevils who visited the quarter where the plague once reigned. With their ghostly hands, they desperately grab onto people and beg them for help, ask them to stay. And the most important thing for you at this moment is not to stop, not to succumb to the icy call of Death.

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As you know, the Middle Ages were a dark and dangerous time. The plague, which was called the "black death" because it mowed down entire cities, wars on religious grounds - all this made the life of a medieval person short. And since European countries 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. Decayed bones were taken out directly from the graves, and a new deceased was placed in the vacant place. For the extracted dilapidated remains, ossuaries were used.

A well-known Czech landmark is the Kostnice v Sedlci church, or simply the Ossuary, and was such a repository. But what distinguished it was an unusual "design" solution - the remains of the dead did not just lie in dark cellars, they completed almost the entire interior decoration of the church. It is said that it took about 40,000 bones to make it.

Today "Bone" is very popular place. Looking at the photos, you can admire its elegant interior. But getting there real life, most people cease to perceive the church from an aesthetic point of view. The oppressive feeling does not leave throughout the excursion. Somewhere in the abdomen, a dense ball of animal horror begins to emerge 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 the Florenc bus station to Kutna Hora, from there by minibus to Sedlec. You can also take the train to Kutná Hora Main Station, from there by bus or on foot. By car from Prague, you need to drive along the E67 highway, then turn towards Kolin and then move along the road number 38.

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

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

The witch market is never deserted. In addition to locals who buy amulets, horseshoes, candles, various medicinal herbs, carcasses of dried snakes, dry 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 México, CDMX, Mexico.
• How get there: By 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 nearest station to the market is Merced, which is only 300 meters away.

Another awesome attraction in Mexico is the huge museum of mummies. The history of its creation dates back to 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 one-time, which would be even clearer, but constantly. And since the "tenant" of such a grave-place, for natural reasons, could not make contributions, the debts fell on the shoulders of his living relatives. In the event that they refused to pay or were completely absent, the place was vacated, and the body of the deceased was exhumed.

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

Cemetery fees operated from 1865 to 1958, and during this time more than 100 mummies were exhumed - they made up the main "fund" of the museum. At the same time, the museum itself arose spontaneously - previously the bodies were simply stored in crypts near the cemetery, but over time, the number of tourists who want 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 gloomy legends.

The history of the Mary King puffin goes back to the Middle Ages. Once upon a time in Scotland, as in all of Europe, a plague raged - the only salvation from the epidemic was to protect healthy people from sick people. As a result, anyone who noticed suspicious symptoms was sent to the "locked city", which became their last refuge.

The dead end is named after the little girl Mary Ann - her parents sent her to this scary 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 her mistress will never need again.

The cul-de-sac is now a popular tourist spot, but locals claim that sometimes at night, groans can be heard 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 recommend using public transport personal car due to potential parking issues.

A gloomy French landmark, from which the blood runs cold, are the Parisian catacombs. They are a network of tunnels with a length of about 200-300 kilometers and arose in the XVI-XVII centuries, when for the construction Parisian cathedrals required a large number of limestone.

In the 17th century, the quarries were closed, as they created a threat of collapse - many quarters could go underground. Soon the tunnels began to be used for burials, since during epidemics the authorities forbade the burial of 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 are lined with bones and skulls from foundations to vaults, so walking along them is not easy for many tourists. Many during such an excursion lose their nerves.

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

Italy is not only fragrant spaghetti and films by Federico Fellini, there are many such sights in this country 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 the locals. And they had good reason to call it that!

People left the island in the XIV century, and since then it has not been inhabited. At the beginning of the 20th century, a mental hospital was built there, shrouded in the most terrible legends - they say that madmen 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 for the expulsion of sick people - plague and lepers. They were taken there and left to the mercy of fate - most often unmerciful.

In the middle of the last century, there were even rumors that the mentally ill, locked in a hospital, see the ghosts of people who died there before. Whether this is true or not is impossible to verify. Today, the island is abandoned, but it attracts many tourists - the building of the old hospital is still standing, and there are quite a lot of people who want to wander along its creepy corridors. This place is located literally on the bones - according to some estimates, up to 160 thousand unfortunate people found their last 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 possible only with a special permit from the commune of Venice. The request is considered within 10 months, so plan your trip in advance.

The stormy 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 is much higher than the average. One of them is the "Skeleton Coast", which the inhabitants of Namibia have considered a cursed place for centuries and even call it "The Earth that God created in anger."

The reasons why many ships sink near this coast have both scientific and mystical versions. Someone believes that the whole thing is in strong undercurrents, because of which ships are carried to sharp rocks, others are sure that a deadly curse has been imposed on the territory.

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

• Address: the beginning of the coast is north of Swakopmund, the end is at the mouth of the Kunene 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 is one of the darkest places in the country - the dense forest of Aokigahara.

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

Because of the crowns, constant twilight reigns 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 on the territory, makes the forest one of the most terrible places in which you happen to visit.

• Address: Motosu, Fujikawaguchiko-machi, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi-ken, Japan.
• How to get there: From Tokyo, there is an Azusa Express from Shinjuku Station to Otsuki Station. Then you need to transfer to the Fujikyuko Aeroexpress and get to the Kawaguchiko Station. Buses run from there 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 Indians who died there will occupy more vantage point at the next rebirth in the cycle of Samsara. That is why Varanasi has become a center of pilgrimage and is especially in demand among the elderly and the sick, anticipating an imminent death.

According to the religious scripture of the Hindus, 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 whole city is in a dense shroud of smog, and on the streets you can’t hide from the heavy smell of burnt human flesh that has soaked everything around.

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

Another attraction in Mexico, after visiting which many tourists have nightmares for a long time, is the “Island of the Dolls”, which looks like you were on the set of another horror movie. 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 island's trees.

In the past, Julian Santana Barrera was a fisherman. One day a little girl drowned in the lake - this story shocked him greatly. Shortly after the funeral, he found a doll near the shore and decided that the spirit of the girl had moved into her. 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 started cleaning up the reservoirs in 1991, a strange collection was discovered - by that time it already had more than 1,000 exhibits. In 2001, Julian Santana Barrera died - they say he drowned in the same lake where the little girl had died many years ago. After his death, the island gained even louder fame.

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

Another gloomy place shrouded in secrets is the Manchak Swamps, which occupy several hundred hectares of Louisiana. Swamps, overgrown with huge cypresses and teeming with alligators, are not only gloomy, but also dangerous. Going there alone is extremely risky.

There are many legends about the swamps, they inspired more than a dozen mystical writers, for example, Anne Rice, popular at the end of the 20th century, the author of the famous film adaptation of the book Interview with the Vampire. Recent finds by archaeologists have allowed scientists to make an amazing discovery - the dead buried in 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 paths. The nearest settlement is the township of Laling, it is about two hours from the regional center of Baton Rouge.

The famous Exclusion Zone, which was forbidden for many years, is now quite popular tourist destination— In the past decade, agencies have sprung up to arrange excursions to this gloomy place. They say that now the radiation background is safe, and all that threatens you is a dose of adrenaline.

Indeed, a terrible sight is a dead city, where everything remains as it was during the life of people. There are dishes on the tables, in the refrigerators there are long-spoiled food, 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 mankind approaches its decline.

• Address: Pripyat, Kyiv region, Ukraine.
• How to get there: by private transport or by sightseeing buses.
• How to get: Pripyat is located in the Exclusion Zone, in a closed area, access to which is carried out exclusively with 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 Évora. 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 transient, sooner or later one end awaits everyone. Over 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 international airport Portela in Lisbon. From there by bus or car (the journey will take 2-3 hours). It can also be reached by train from railway station Evora.

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

In 1968, during an ordinary sermon in the chapel, the roof collapsed - none of the parishioners who came to the church that day survived. This terrible event stirred up 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 Yakub Hadrava installed rather gloomy figures in it, whose faces are 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 either.

After the installation of the statues, the church turned into one of the most popular tourist places, from the visit of which creeps a shiver. Travelers who have been there notice that, despite the simplicity of the Czech artist's idea, his installation looks just 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 town of Manetin, from there - by taxi or rented car.
• How to get: the church is closed almost all the time, to visit you need to agree with the administration.

Another creepy 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's mummy or a monkey's embryo. An unimaginable number of amulets, animal skulls, skins - all this looks really frightening for an unprepared tourist.

Moreover, traders often come to the market with goods that are not yet ready for sale and begin to butcher or skin the carcasses of animals right in the middle of the day in front of everyone. So impressionable definitely should not arrange shopping in such an inappropriate place.

• Address: right in the center of the city of Lome, the capital of the state of Togo in Africa.
• How to get there: by plane to Lome airport. Mostly 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 that lived in Nazca had a strange custom - to bury the dead in open graves. The dead were given various poses (both recumbent and sitting) and left them under the rays of the scorching sun, which soon burned all the flesh, exposing the 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 has been preserved thanks to special embalming methods.

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

An attraction around which there was a lot of controversy is the cemetery of Tophet in Tunisia. Archaeologists, having found it, were surprised - only babies, stillborn or unborn children are buried on the territory.

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

There are also some pretty creepy ones. For example, Dargavs, known as " City of the dead"- Alanian necropolis of the late XX century. It looks like a real town, all the houses of which are actually tombs. The place is pretty creepy. In addition, it was there during the glacier descent in 2002 that the film crew of Sergei Bodrov (junior) died.

• 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. The rarest pathologies, ancient medical equipment, and everything that is usually mildly referred to in guidebooks as “biological exhibits”. It is better not to visit the museum for impressionable people, otherwise nightmares cannot be avoided.

Summing up

These were the most scary places planets that every lover should tickle his nerves to visit. Be sure to visit them, especially if you are a horror fan and do not miss any new horror movies that are released.

On our amazing planet there are a large number beautiful places, from the sight of which the heart stops and I want to live. Every person would like to be in earthly paradise to enjoy its wonders and magnificence of nature, but if you turn the globe, you can find a lot of terrible and incredibly scary places, the top 10 of which we bring to your attention.

10. Chernobyl, Ukraine

Chernobyl is a small town located in the Kyiv region, Ivankovsky district of Ukraine. Locality, whose population was just over 13,000 people, became infamous due to a man-made disaster that occurred at a local nuclear power plant in late April 1986. Today in place former city there is an exclusion zone, where only the brave dare to go. After the accident, local residents left these places, leaving behind signs of their vital activity: there are toys in the kindergarten, unread newspapers are slowly destroyed on the dining tables. Today, the level of radiation has ceased to pose a threat to humans, and therefore access is officially allowed here. You can come here by bus departing from Kyiv, excursions include a nuclear reactor covered with a sarcophagus and the abandoned city of Pripyat.

9. Abbey of Thelema, Sicily, Italy

The Abbey of Thelema is a small building in which the famous occultist Aleister Crowley organized a secret society of séance lovers in 1920. Those who became members of this mystical organization prayed to the Sun and studied the writings of their leader. In 1923, a student died mysteriously in the Abbey building, who, according to his wife, had drunk cat's blood the day before at one of the rituals. The interview that the widowed woman gave to one of the publications reached Mussolini, who ordered Crowley to be expelled from the country, which was done in the same year. The building gradually fell into disrepair, and the locals whitewashed all the walls on which esoteric words were written. Today, the Abbey is almost completely destroyed, and everyone who lives nearby tries to bypass this place.

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8. Dead End Mary King, Edinburgh, Scotland

According to historical information, in the 17th century, a plague epidemic covered Edinburgh, and, in order to prevent the further spread of infection, it was decided to isolate the sick in a certain part of the city. The owner of most of the buildings here was Mary King, so the ill-fated quarter was named after her. After some time, all the buildings here were dismantled, and mystical things began to happen at this place. Every now and then, around the corner, visitors were met by strange people in white robes, and at any approach to them, the ghosts disappeared. It is said that a poltergeist roams here in the form of a little girl who, in severe pain, died of the plague in 1645. A century later, a large building was erected in an ominous and gloomy dead end, which is shown to tourists today.

7. Winchester House, San Jose, California, USA

There are many legends and mysterious stories around this unusual house. It all started with the fact that the heiress of the arms factory, Sarah Winchester, was predicted by a fortuneteller to be constantly haunted by ghosts, so it’s better for the girl to leave Connecticut forever. At the same time, the soothsayer said that the west of the country should become her new place of residence, where she should begin the construction of a huge building, but she could not finish the construction until her death. According to legend, Sarah did just that and continued to build a strange building from 1884 to 1938 until she died. The interior and structural features of the house terrify a normal person: the flights of stairs here rest against the ceiling, and the doors are located in the middle of the wall. Those who have ever visited this crazy building claim to have heard or seen a lot of inexplicable things here.

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6. Catacombs, Paris, France

The catacombs are a whole network of incredibly winding artificial caves and tunnels. The walls of the dungeon are lined with human skulls and bones like ceramic tiles, and the dry air keeps out the smell of a corpse. The total length of the catacombs is up to 300 km, and the number of those who found their last refuge here is about 6 million people. The history of the quarries began in the 11th century, when quarries began to be developed here in a closed way. A little later, the monks began to use these premises in the form of wine cellars, and quarrying continued. Many people who fell victim to the bubonic plague and the Bartholomew night are buried in these dungeons, and even such celebrities as Lavoisier, Robespierre, Pascal, Charles Perrault, Francois Rabelais are buried here.

5. Manchak Swamp, Louisiana, USA

Manchak is located near the city of New Orleans and is known among the indigenous population as the "bog of ghosts." According to legend, once upon a time in these places, a Voodoo queen was imprisoned, who cursed this place. The three villages that were here have disappeared forever, and those who dare to come here are waiting for wandering lights, gloomy shadows of centuries-old trees and inexplicable panic fear. At one time, runaway convicts who fled from their masters found the last refuge for the owl in these swamps. The crocodiles that live here will not give the traveler a single chance of survival, and the periodic human remains floating to the surface are just another confirmation of this.

4. Easter Island, Chile

This place is considered one of the most mysterious on our planet. Easter Island gained worldwide fame after the discovery of giant stone idols that stare into the sky with empty eye sockets. No one managed to unravel the secret of the origin of the statues, and who was their creator is also not known. No one is able to explain the appearance of sculptures on the islands, and how it was possible to make twenty-meter giants weighing 90 tons is still a mystery. In addition, the quarry from which the stone blocks were cut is located 20 km from the place where the statues were installed, so the question of how they were brought here also remains open.

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3. Black Magic Bazaar, Sonor, Mexico

Top three opens chilling blood a bazaar where you can buy everything that witches and sorcerers offer. The Sonora Market is a huge labyrinth, passing through the street of which you can encounter any "evil spirits". Gloomy old women and dirty magicians are in small booths and offer only 10 dollars to buy amulets from poverty or punish your partner for adultery. Every day, hundreds of Mexicans and visitors to the country flock here to find out what awaits them in the future. Here you can buy dried hummingbirds, all kinds of potions, snake blood, black salt, golden sand and much more.

2. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia

Truk Lagoon is the largest cemetery military equipment and is located southeast of Hawaii. The bottom of this bay was explored in 1971 by Jacques Yves Cousteau, who confirmed that everything here is littered with the remains of ships sunk in 1944. This place is like a magnet attracts many scuba divers from all over the world, although many divers claim that the presence of teams is felt here, forever imprisoned inside the metal casing. Many aircraft carriers, fighters and ships have already become part of the coral reefs, and many brave divers have never come to the surface again.

1. Mutter Museum of the History of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

The museum is located in the state of Pennsylvania, in one of the buildings of the medical college and is the largest collection of pathologies. The exposition was opened in 1750 and is intended for the education of future doctors and contains an incredible number of human anomalies and pathologies, as well as ancient medical devices, instruments and all sorts of biological oddities. Here is the world's largest collection of skulls, and in addition, visitors are offered to look at a mummified woman who turned into soap. Other items include the liver of Siamese twins, the skeleton of a boy with two heads, and a fused female fetus. Visiting the museum for people with a weak psyche or too impressionable is not recommended, since most of the exhibits inspire chilling horror on guests.

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