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Travel agencies are overwhelmed by trying to attract travelers and increase their sales. But often popular tourist destinations are so banal and boring! Excursions, sights ... You will have similar impressions from going to. Do you want real adventure? There are corners on the planet from which the blood runs cold! Especially for you, we have collected the TOP 20 scariest places in the world. You will remember this trip for a long time!

As you know, the Middle Ages were a dark and dangerous time. The plague, which was 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 Kostnitsa is a 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. Its history begins in the 19th century, when local authorities decided to increase the size of the treasury and came up with a new tax - on burials. Moreover, payments had to be made not 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 advise you to prefer public transport to a private car due to possible problems with parking.

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 back in the 16th-17th centuries, when the construction of 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, Parisian catacombs more than 6 million people were buried.

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 legends about the "Island of Death" and ancient: in ancient times and in the Middle Ages this place served as a place of exile for the sick - the 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: mysterious place located just 200 m from the other 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 creepiest places you will ever 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 Hindus who died there will take a more advantageous position during 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 Laling Township, from regional center Baton Rouge is about two hours away.

The famous Exclusion Zone, forbidden for many years, is now a fairly popular tourist destination - in the past decade, agencies have sprung up to organize 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 Évora train station.

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 spots, 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 the “City of the Dead”, is an Alanian necropolis of the late 20th 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 scariest 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 terrible places on the planet, which 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.

10 - Swamp Manchak

The paranormal swamp is located in American Louisiana, not far from New Orleans. Ghosts and werewolves live here, frightening landscapes and predatory animals surround the swamp. This area is often referred to as "ghost swamps" and cannot be crossed without a boat.

Here people mysteriously disappear. There is a legend that speaks of a curse that was inflicted by a witch several decades ago.

In the photos you can see what these terrible swamps with blue-black water look like. There have been repeated attempts to drain this area, but this has never been done. Each time a powerful hurricane broke all plans and destroyed the settlements of the workers and the people themselves.

9 – Cane Hill Hospital

Cane Hill was a lunatic asylum in Croydon, London. The hospital worked exactly until 1991. Then, at one point, all the patients and doctors left the facility. The strange thing is that it all happened suddenly, and what caused it is unknown.

Some patients were transferred to other hospitals, some returned home, some ran away, and some simply disappeared. The mysterious and quick closure of the hospital was the reason for the horror of this place.

The hospital building still exists today. Inside, you can see abandoned old equipment, medical supplies, wards with patient beds, documents and everything else that was left after the sudden devastation.

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8 — Ruins of Bangar

India, Rajasthan, the abandoned city of Bangar. The place was erected by the prince, in memory of his military achievements.

Rumor has it that this place is the largest concentration of ghosts in India. the city was built back in 1573, but because of a mystical curse in 1783, all the inhabitants left there.

Bangar, or rather what is left of it, is so filled with ghosts and other evil spirits that the authorities are forced to close it after sunset and before sunrise.

7 - Centralia

1962, Centralia, Pennsylvania, the city is being cleaned up and several firefighters, while in an old mine, set fire to a pile of garbage.

But the worst happened, the fire spread much further and eventually the mine ignited. The fire lasted a long time, so long that the streets of Centralia were deserted forever.

Today Centralia is not the best place for tourism. You run the risk of being poisoned by poisonous gases, getting trapped in collapsing roads or smoking earth.

6 - Gates of Hell

The Gates of Hell is a huge hole in the ground in Turkmenistan, its width is almost 100 meters. This paranormal phenomenon was provoked back in 1971, after an accident at one of the Soviet drilling stations. Then a dangerous fault was formed, from which poisonous gases flowed.

Scientists decided to burn dangerous gases and thus get rid of the problem, but something went wrong. From the moment the gases were set on fire, the fire continues to this day. Its lights are visible from afar. The locals called it the "Gates of Hell" phenomena.

No one knows when the flame will go out and the fire will be stopped.

5 - Shrine of Tophet

In Tunisia, there is the Sanctuary of Tophet. This place is home to the graves of thousands of children.

Scientists suggest that these are sacrifices that took place in Punic times. Then this place was called Carthage.

Then famine reigned here, so there are all prerequisites to assume that the children sacrificed were eaten.

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In Belize, there is a cave that is full of artifacts and skeletons of the Mayan tribe.

One of the most amazing elements of this place was a young girl who was sacrificed a long time ago.

Even more fear catches up with her bones, shining like crystal from calcination.

3 - Aokigahara

Japanese forest, which is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. This place is also called the sea of ​​trees.

The whole horror of this forest is that it is considered the most popular for suicides.

Every year, a special group of people is sent there to clear the forest of corpses.

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


2. Poisonous beauty of the Danakil desert
Understand - leisure, new impressions, but not so much! we told friends packing for a vacation in the Ethiopian desert, but they did not listen to us.


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


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


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


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


In fact, she is like this:


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


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




Every person burdened with housekeeping has dark corners not only in his biography, but also in his home. This is not necessarily a closet with instructive spiders to intimidate Pinocchio. In a dark corner there may be, for example, a stash - something valuable, which, unlike a person, is not afraid of darkness. There are such mega-angles in every country on every continent. No culture can live without cursed places. The scariest places on the planet compete in intensity of quiet horror, like economies, brands, or football leagues. The most terrible places attract guests - from among the philistines who are used to seeing horrors on TV. It would be boring to live without such corners of the Earth. Like in an apartment without dark corners.
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4. Forest of cultural suicides
Aokigahara is an old forest at the foot of sacred mountain Fuji. People come here not for mushrooms, not for barbecues, but to say goodbye to life. For some time now, Aokigahara has been fondly chosen by authentic Japanese suicides.






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

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


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


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


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


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


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



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


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




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





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


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




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




Lyrical digression: wandering around the black Japanese forests with gallows and museums with skulls and intestines, we romantics completely forgot about such the most terrible places on the planet as working torture rooms of the criminal investigation department in the police departments. About places where a small civil war and nano-genocide are played out daily. A holy faith in justice and a neat appearance of chaste eyes saves us, romantics, from visiting such "fear" events. What up civil war, then, I remember, the most terrible, bloody and unusually stupid of them was in Rwanda. A terrible African country, where we will go today.
8. Africa is terrible, yes, yes, yes!
All Soviet children know that a nasty, bad, greedy Barmaley lives in Africa. The concentration of barmaley per square mile of tea plantations exceeds 420 individuals. In 1994, barmaley with a machete decided to reduce their own population by 900 thousand souls. That's what came out of it




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




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




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




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






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


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


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





Those who are weary of the war are fleeing Mogadishu, but they cannot escape themselves. Over the past year, 100 thousand residents of the warring capital left the city, risking death not from a bullet, but from thirst. The UN is not even able to transfer humanitarian aid to them - it's scary, and there are no security guarantees.






How scary to live ... Fortunately, not for us.

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 secrets.

15. Gates to Hell, Darvaz

Aptly named the "Gate to Hell," Turkmen's 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.

14. Cemetery of ships, Muynak, Uzbekistan

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.

13. Mass suicide of birds in Jatinga, India

Every year in the valley of Jatinga, India, there is a real "bird fall". 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.

11. Crooked Forest, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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

10. Leap Castle, Ireland

It is called the creepiest castle in 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 (“ubliyet”), 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 "ubliette" - it took three wagons to clean the dungeon.

9. UFO houses in Taiwan

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.

8. Akodesseva Fetish Market in Togo

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.

6. Island of the Dolls, Mexico

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 Aztec canals - chinampas, listed in the World Heritage List. cultural heritage UNESCO. 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.

5. Hashima Ghost Town, Japan

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 become 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. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has inscribed this abandoned city on the World Heritage List.

4. Pripyat, Chernobyl, Ukraine

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 worst man-made disaster in history. 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.

3. Hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines

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.

2. Poveglia, Italy

A quarantine station, a common grave for victims of the plague, and more recently, by historical standards, a shelter for the insane - tiny island Poveglia, sheltered 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.

1. Aokigahara Forest, Japan

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 popular place suicide among residents of Tokyo and the surrounding area. Between 70 and 100 bodies are found in the forest every year.

On our planet, along with modern, technologically and industrially developed megacities, there are many places created by ancient masters or by nature itself.

Each such attraction has its own legend and, of course, a lot of things are silent. Mysterious places cause a huge number of questions among scientists, confuse with anomalous phenomena and uncertainty.

1. Devil's Tower, USA

In size, the Devil's Tower is several times larger than the Cheops pyramid and from the outside it resembles a man-made structure. Due to its unrealistic size and unnaturally regular configuration, the rock has become the object of attention of many scientists, and local residents claim that Satan himself built it.

2. Mounds of Cahokia, USA

It is still unknown why almost 40,000 people left their settlement, and which Indian tribes are direct descendants of the Cahokians. Despite this, the mounds of Cahokia are a favorite place for many tourists who come here in the hope of unraveling the mystery of the ancient city.

3. Chavinda, Mexico

Chavinda is of interest to many treasure hunters, because according to legend, this area hides unprecedented riches. Unfortunately, no one has yet been able to find the treasure. Unfortunate treasure hunters often attribute their failures to otherworldly forces.

4. Newgrange, Ireland

It is still unknown how ancient people were able to build such a perfect structure, which for five millennia was not only lucky enough to survive, retaining its primitive appearance, but also to remain completely waterproof.

5. Pyramids of Yonaguni, Japan

In the course of numerous studies, it was possible to establish that the age of the Yonaguni pyramids is more than 10 thousand years. Therefore, if the Yonaguna monuments created mysterious civilizations unknown to us, then the history of mankind should be rewritten.

Mysterious civilization. Underwater cities of Yonaguni

6. Geoglyphs of Nazca, Peru

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to ask the creators, but scientists offer 2 main versions: some, leaning towards the cosmic theory of the origin of geoglyphs, believe that they are landmarks for alien ships, others argue that these are giant lunar calendars. In any case, the Nazca rock paintings are proof of the existence of an ancient and mysterious civilization on the territory of modern Peru, which lived here long before the famous Incas and was distinguished by a high level of development.

7. Black Bamboo Hollow, China

They say that children and pets disappear without a trace here, which has a lot of documentary evidence. Scientists have been interested in the hollow of black bamboo for decades, who managed to prove that the valley in the Chinese province of Sichuan is an anomalous area with a difficult climate and rapidly changing weather conditions, which together provoke subsidence of the soil, which, according to scientists, are the reasons for the disappearance of people .

8. Path of the Giants, Ireland

The natural attraction belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This place deserves admiration, so it is visited annually by more than one thousand tourists from all over the world.

9. Goseck circle, Germany

The original appearance of the building was returned only after a complete reconstruction. Scholars have little doubt that the Goseck Circle was used for astronomical observations and calendaring. This proves that our ancestors also studied space bodies, their movement and kept track of time.

10. Moai Monuments on Easter Island

In total, about 1000 remains of such man-made monuments were found on the island. Most have already gone under water.

Today, the vast majority of the statues are again placed on platforms facing the ocean, from where they continue to meet the guests of the island and remind of their former power. ancient people that inhabited these spaces.

Easter Island - Moai Message

11 Georgia Guidestones, USA

The height of the monumental structure is a little over six meters, and the slabs are oriented towards the four sides of the world and have holes. In one of them you can see the North Star at any time of the year, in the second - the Sun during the solstice and equinox. A few years ago, the monument was vandalized and damaged by paint, which has not yet been removed.

12. Richat (Eye of the Sahara). Mauritania

This object has an incredibly huge size (up to 50 kilometers in diameter), so it can be seen even from space. The structure has several ellipsoidal rings formed by sedimentary rocks and sandstones about 500 million years ago.

13. "Gate to Hell" - Darvaza crater in Turkmenistan

During such geological research, a group of scientists discovered an underground cavern with natural gas, which almost led to the death of a huge number of people. Therefore, the management decided to set fire to the gas so that it would not threaten local residents. But the fire, which was supposed to burn no more than 5 days, is still burning, instilling fear in everyone who comes close to it.

Courageous people are ready to take a selfie at the "Gate of Hell"

14. Arkaim, Russia

Arkaim is not only a unique architectural monument with a thousand-year history, but also a place of concentration of healing energy flows that can save a person from any disease.

15. Stonehenge, England