Ten scariest places in the world. Thrill-Seekers Tourism - The Scariest Places on Earth

How do people see their summer rest? For most tourists, the ultimate dream is a light breeze and a golden beach near warm sea, others dream of the boundless beauties of alpine meadows and amazing beautiful waterfalls, some do not imagine their vacation without adrenaline, in search of which they go to the mountains or conquer stormy rivers.

It is for such people that horror tourism was created. Visiting the most scary places in the world, or as they are now called "horror tours", has become one of the most popular requests in travel companies. Such trips tickle the nerves of travelers, diluting everyday life with adrenaline.

1. Winchester House (San Jose, USA)
The huge Winchester mansion, built in San Jose, has 160 rooms and 40 stairs.

One night, the ghost of her late husband appeared to her, he told her bad news: since a huge fortune was made on human bones, the entire Winchester family is now cursed, and the ghosts will take revenge on them. You can appease them only by starting the construction of a large estate. But there is one condition, as soon as the knocking of hammers subsides, the mistress of the house will die. Sarah Winchester immediately began construction.

All floors were entwined with a web of stairs leading to nowhere - thus frightened Mrs. Winchester tried to get rid of the ghosts chasing her.

The estate grew faster every day, construction did not stop for a moment and lasted more than 38 years!

Today, the Winchesters' home is open to tourists. However, you should not fight off the group, as you can instantly get lost in the labyrinths of rooms and corridors, in which, according to rumors, ghosts are waiting for their victims.

2. Museum of Torture in Mdina (Malta)

Nowadays, life in the town has practically stopped, there are practically no people on the streets of Mdina.

In the museum, visitors can see wax figure with bulging eyes in pain, at the moment when the executors pour hot oil down his throat. The scene of pulling out the tongue was also shown to tourists.

The hunchback caretaker relentlessly follows the brave sightseers - this adds color to the creepy place.

3. Manchak Swamps (USA, Louisiana)

Excursions to the swamps for tourists, to heighten fear, arrange at night. Travelers ride through the swamp on an Indian canoe, and only a torch illuminates their path. The only inhabitants of the swamps are huge alligators.

Periodically, from the depths of the swamps, a terrible and drawn-out howl is heard, belonging, according to local legend, to the terrible werewolf "rougarou". The Manchak swamps are also called the “ghost swamp”. This place, located near New Orleans, attracts Goths and other lovers thrill.

According to legend, the Manchak swamps were cursed by a voodoo queen who was captured here at the beginning of the 20th century. They say that it was she who sent a hurricane to the local lands, which swept here in 1915, destroyed to the ground and covered three villages with an impregnable swamp. Beneath the muddy slush is a graveyard of hundreds of people and pets that periodically float to the surface. The corpses become food for the local alligators, who also keep a close eye on tourists passing by in boats.

4. Pripyat (Ukraine)

On central avenues the city you can see scraps of newspapers dated 1986, the wind whistles through the broken windows of hospitals, kindergartens and schools.

Not far away, in the city park, a huge Ferris wheel creaks softly, and on the overgrown autodrome there are rusty cars that have not had time to ride their little passengers.

By the way, in the bypass channel that cools the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, huge mutant catfish live, which the station workers feed with bread.

Despite the dead landscape, abandoned houses and increased background radiation, more and more tourists from all over the world want to see this city frozen in time with their own eyes.

5. Catacombs of Paris (France)

Completes the list of the most terrible tourist places of the world is a gloomy underground labyrinth located in the catacombs of Paris.

6. Cemetery Gothic Church in Sedlec (Kostnice v Sedlci, Česko)
In the Czech Republic there is a small town - Kutna Hora. In the 13th century it was a large shopping mall country, but the plague came to the city. About 30,000 people died within a year and the city turned into a huge cemetery.

But there was not enough land in the cemetery, so they began to dig out the old bones, and then transfer them to the local church, and make new burials in the vacated territory.

In the 18th century, the monastic lands, together with the empty monastery, were bought by the Schwarzenberg family. They hired František Rint, who was a woodcarver, to whiten the bones of the dead with bleach, and then, from the resulting material, he built the Schwarzenberg coat of arms, church vases, decorations and a huge chandelier for the church.

According to rough estimates, about 40,000 skeletons have been collected in the church.

The area around the church is used as a cemetery to this day.

7. Romanian Bran Castle (Castelul Bran)

The gothic silhouette of the castle terrified the locals thanks to the terrible legends about Prince Vlad IV, who is better known as Vlad Dracula.

Local guides love to talk about the fact that after the death of Vlad Dracula turned into a vampire. And every night, when the clock in the castle starts to strike twelve, he rises from the coffin and goes for another victim, which becomes a young and beautiful girl. Vlad bites into her neck and drinks blood. In addition, according to legend, the count can transform into a bat, wolf or rat. Moreover, he can subjugate the mind of a person - the victim does not resist him, and then, if he remains alive, he completely forgets about what happened.

Bran Castle was restored in 1992 by American director Francis Ford Coppola, who filmed his sensational film Dracula there.

8. Melbourne Old Gaol (Old Melbourne Gaol)

The guides tell horror stories about the former inhabitants of the prison and about the ghosts that roam the dark corridors of the museum at night, in addition, tourists can even look at photographs that depict “rebellious souls”.

The most famous "mask of death" is the death mask of the felon and murderer Edward "Ned" Kelly.

9. Centralia (America, Pennsylvania).
Deep in the bowels of the earth, right under the small settlement of Centralia, a fire has been raging for 46 years, spreading through the coal mines.

The culprits of the fire, according to legend, are ... firefighters who planned to burn the accumulated mountain of garbage in an abandoned mine.

Today, only a few people live in Centralia, earning their living in a kind of "tourist business".

10. Municipality of Hallstatt (Austria)

The city is on the list world heritage UNESCO and has been popular for over 3000 years for its salt mines. But, there is one nuance - there is very little space for living in the city, both for living people and for the dead, since the settlement is territorially limited by a lake on one side and rocks on the other.

10 years after the burial, bones from the graves of local residents are removed from the ground, and then bleached and painted.

After this ritual, the bones are transferred to the local chapel for storage, and the next burial is carried out in the vacated place.

Many people often get tired of the usual quiet life and they begin to want thrills. Therefore they are doing extreme views sports or travel to dangerous places.

"Disgusting" ten

First of all, abandoned places that were abandoned as a result of any natural or man-made disasters are considered terrible. In addition, old prisons, hospitals, cemeteries, objects associated with suffering and death, have such a reputation. Just unfinished or abandoned buildings, as well as places where some religious rituals were held, can also be considered terrible. All this attracts the attention of people who want to get their portion of adrenaline.

The latest top 10 scariest places on Earth:

• Mutter Museum of the History of Medicine (Philadelphia, USA).
• Truk Lagoon (Micronesian Islands).
• Sonora Witch Market (Mexico City, Mexico).
• Abbey of Thelema (Sicily).
• Ghost town Pripyat (Ukraine).
• Winchester House (San Jose, California).
• Easter Island (Chile).
• Catacombs (Paris, France).
• Manchak Swamps (Louisiana, USA).
• Dead End Mary King (Edinburgh, Scotland).

Each of them visits enough a large number of tourists. But more about everything!

Mutter Museum

The museum is a cabinet of curiosities - there are exhibited various medical pathologies. It was opened in 1750, but it has been fully operational only since 1858. At first it was a laboratory for the study of anomalies and deformities. Later it was turned into a museum, which is recommended to be visited only by people with a strong nervous system.

Most memorable exhibits:

• collection of human skulls;
• the corpse of a woman who turned into soap in the grave due to the characteristics of the earth in this place;
• abnormally long human intestine - 12.5 m;
• the body of Harry Eastlack - a man whose extra bone began to grow in place of each bruise or wound (he voluntarily bequeathed to transfer himself to the museum after death);
• Siamese twins (there are with a common liver, there are with fused heads);
• skeleton of a child with 2 heads;
• image of a man with a huge tumor on his cheek.

In general, the entire exposition consists of such deformities and anomalies. There are both preserved bodies and organs, as well as wax models and photographs, and various instruments are also widely represented. The Museum of Medicine will be of interest not only to those who like to tickle their nerves, but also to those who are truly interested in this field of science, and especially in physiological anomalies.

It is located southwest of Hawaiian archipelago. It is a kind of "lake" in pacific ocean- a space surrounded by corals that protect it from waves. Therefore, the lagoon is always calm.

During the Second World War, the Japanese army organized a powerful military fort here. In 1944, American troops completely bombed it, destroyed a large number of fighter planes and warships. Truk has since become a cemetery military equipment. Since the 70s, it has gained popularity among historians, as well as those who are interested in the war or just want to tickle their nerves.

Many ships and planes remained intact. On the decks there are tanks, cars (most of them do not even have broken windshields and headlights), inside you can find military equipment. Almost everything was covered with algae, and the equipment grew into corals. In addition to cars, there are also human remains. Such a post-apocalyptic picture attracts everyone who is bored with everyday life.

The scariest places on Earth are primarily associated with the supernatural, and the Sonoran market is no exception. It is a set of booths and shops where sorcerers and witches predict fate, “remove” and “induce” damage, “treat” with conspiracies and potions, etc. Also here you can buy various components for the manufacture of magic tools, magic manuals, cards and other attributes for divination, medicinal plants. Mexicans believe in magic, so this market is not just a tourist place for them.

Theleme Abbey

It was founded in the 1920s in Sicily by Aleister Crowley for orgies and named after the utopia in F. Rabelais' book Gargantua and Pantagruel. In an ordinary, at first glance, farmhouse, the followers of a famous occultist gathered and arranged black magic rites, mysteries and orgies.

The main one was the Nightmare Room, where newcomers were initiated: after taking the drug, they had to look at the frescoes of heaven and hell and focus on their sensations. After the death of a famous London dandy from drugs, a scandal arose, and the authorities finally banned the gathering. Now this terrible house lies in ruins, but some terrible frescoes have been preserved in it. There are no official tours here.

Pripyat

This Ukrainian city suffered from an accident on Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. The radiation background, which was almost fatal for humans, made it necessary to evacuate all residents. Years later, when it declined, in Pripyat and other settlements The Exclusion Zones began to conduct official tours.

Tourists are attracted by the romance of an abandoned city: empty, crumbling houses, schools and other institutions in which many things remain; yards overgrown with grass and trees, which have practically turned into a forest; rusty rides in the park and swings in the yards. Pripyat, like other ghost towns, - good example of what the earth would look like if humanity disappeared.

House of Winchesters

The house is located in the California city of San Jose and is one of the 10 most creepy and scary places in the world because a curse hangs over it. It was built by Sarah Winchester, the daughter-in-law of the inventor of the famous rifle. After the sudden death of her daughter and husband, she was at a séance, where the spirit of her husband told her that the deaths were the revenge of those killed with a gun. To be saved, one must build new house, but as soon as the construction is completed, Sarah will die ....

Following this advice, the woman acquired old mansion and over the years rebuilt it, making it more and more like a labyrinth. Construction went on from 1884 to 1922. As a result, a huge number of rooms (160), kitchens (6), windows, including those in the floor (10000), doors (2000) were made in the house. Sarah Winchester died a natural death, but after that, anomalous phenomena began in the house: the doors themselves slammed, the windows opened and closed, the lights went out.

Even if among the tourists there are those who do not believe in ghosts, the house is still dangerous for them: it is large, it is easy to get lost in it, besides, there are many stairs leading to the ceiling, doors behind which are not rooms, but walls, etc. .d. Even without anomalous phenomena this design is intimidating.

Known for huge stone idols, the origin of which is not known for certain. There are suggestions that they are created by an alien, and not earthly civilization, because the Polynesians who inhabited the island did not have such advanced technology to carve such statues.

Archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl describes a technique for erecting statues that he learned from the natives, but how they were made has not been fully elucidated. An island like the others mysterious places on Earth, is very popular with tourists.

Catacombs of Paris

It is a long and winding network of underground tunnels. At first they were used as quarries, where limestone was mined for construction, but they were abandoned in the Middle Ages. In the XVIII century. there they began to bring the remains of those who died from the plague, who had previously rested in the cemetery of the Innocents within the city. They were disinfected and stacked on top of each other.

Now the catacombs are corridors, where skulls and bones are neatly laid along the walls, there is also an altar, wall paintings, monuments. Only part of the tunnels is open to tourists.

Marshes of Manchak

Also called "ghost swamps". There is a legend that in 1915 a voodoo queen cursed this place, as a result a hurricane rose and destroyed the nearby villages. Until now, the corpses of the dead periodically emerge in the swamp.

They tried to drain the swamps, but no one succeeded, many died in this occupation. According to legend, werewolves and ghosts are found here, but the main danger is still swamps and alligators that prey on extreme lovers swimming through the swamps.

Puffin Mary King

A dead end - several streets near Edinburgh. In the Middle Ages, it was one of the city quarters, which was located in a lowland and was separated from others. He got his name thanks to the owner of the houses on one of the streets.

In the 17th century there was an epidemic of plague in the city. To stop it, the sick began to be taken to die in this separated quarter and surrounded it with a wall. In the end, everyone there died. After 100 years, a new one was built over the destroyed quarter.

In the future, thrill-seekers began to visit the dungeon, and since 2003 the dead end has been officially open for excursions. Now it is a tunnel with moldy walls, boarded up windows and doors. Here they see ghosts, hear their moans and feel the breath of an icy wind. Sometimes it is even possible to capture a ghost in a photo.

These are not all the most terrible places in the world, but there are enough of them to both get scared and think about the frailty of life.

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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4 - Aktun Tunichil Muknal

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.

During the visit, the skin is covered with goosebumps from what he saw here. With the most scary places on earth we will meet further.

Old Jewish cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

Processions in this cemetery took place for almost four centuries (from 1439 to 1787). More than 100 thousand dead are buried on a relatively small plot of land, and the number of tombstones reaches 12,000.
cemetery workers covered the burials with earth, and new tombstones were erected in the same place. On the territory of the cemetery there are places where 12 grave tiers are located under the earth's crust. As time passed, the sagging earth opened the eyes of the living to the old tombstones, which began to shift the later ones. The view turned out not only unusual, but also creepy.

Island of abandoned dolls, Mexico

There is a very strange abandoned island in Mexico, most which is inhabited by scary dolls. It is said that in 1950, a certain hermit Julian Santana Barrera began to collect and hang dolls from wastebaskets, who in this way tried to calm the soul of a girl drowned nearby. Julian himself drowned on the island on April 17, 2001. Now there are about 1000 exhibits on the island.

Hashima Island, Japan

Hasima is a former coal miner's settlement founded in 1887. It was considered one of the most densely populated places on earth - with coastline about a kilometer its population in 1959 was 5259 people. When coal became unprofitable to mine here, the mine was closed and the island city added itself to the list of ghost towns. It happened in 1974.

Chapel of Bones, Portugal

Copella was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk. The chapel itself is small - only 18.6 meters long and 11 meters wide, but the bones and skulls of five thousand monks are kept here. On the roof of the chapel is the phrase "Melior est die mortis die nativitatis" ("Better the day of death than the day of birth").

Suicide Forest, Japan

Suicide Forest is the informal name for the Aokigahara Jukai forest, located on the island of Honshu in Japan and famous for its frequent suicides. Initially, the forest was associated with Japanese mythology and was traditionally represented as the abode of demons and ghosts. Now it is considered the second most popular place in the world (the championship at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) to settle accounts with life. At the entrance to the forest there is a poster: “Your life is a priceless gift from your parents. Think about them and about your family. You don't have to suffer alone. Call us at 22-0110."

Abandoned psychiatric hospital in Parma, Italy

Brazilian artist Herbert Baglione made an art object from a building that once housed a psychiatric hospital. He portrayed the spirit of this place. Now ghostly figures of exhausted patients roam the former hospital.

Church of St. George, Czech Republic

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

Catacombs in Paris, France

Catacombs - a network of winding underground tunnels and caves under Paris. The total length, according to various sources, is from 187 to 300 kilometers. Since the end of the 18th century, the remains of almost 6 million people have been buried in the catacombs.

City of Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA

Due to the underground fire that broke out 50 years ago, which continues to burn to this day, the population has decreased from 1,000 people (1981) to 7 people (2012). The population of Centralia is now considered the smallest in the state of Pennsylvania. Centralia served as the prototype for the creation of the city in the Silent Hill series of games and in the film based on this game.

Akodesseva Magic Market, Togo

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

Plague Island, Italy

Poveglia is one of the most famous islands Venetian lagoon, northern Italy. It is said that since Roman times, the island has been used as a place of exile for plague patients, in connection with which up to 160,000 people were buried on it. The souls of many of the dead have allegedly turned into ghosts, with which the island is now full. The island's dismal reputation is exacerbated by tales of horrific experiments allegedly subjected to patients in a psychiatric clinic. For this reason, researchers paranormal activity call the island one of the most terrible places on earth.

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

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

Cabayan burials, Philippines

The famous fire mummies of Kabayan, dating back to 1200-1500 AD, are buried here, as well as, as they believe locals, their spirits. They were made using a complex mummification process, and are now carefully guarded, as cases of their theft are not uncommon. Why? As one of the robbers said, “he had the right to do so,” since the mummy was his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.

Overtown Bridge, Scotland

Old arch bridge located near the Scottish village of Milton. In the middle of the 20th century, strange things began to happen on it: dozens of dogs suddenly rushed from a 15-meter height, fell on stones and broke to death. Those that survived returned and tried again. The bridge has turned into a real "killer" of four-legged animals.

Aktun Tunichil Muknal Cave, Belize

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

Leap Castle, Ireland

Leap Castle in Offaly, Ireland is considered one of the world's cursed castles. Its dark attraction is a large underground dungeon, the bottom of which is studded with sharp stakes. The dungeon was discovered during the restoration of the castle. In order to take out all the bones from it, the workers needed 4 wagons. Locals say that the castle is inhabited by many ghosts of people who died in the dungeon.

Chauchilla Cemetery, Peru

Chauchilla cemetery is located about 30 minutes from the Nazca desert plateau, on south coast Peru. The necropolis was discovered in the 1920s. According to researchers, bodies were found in the cemetery, which are about 700 years old, and the last burials were carried out here in the 9th century. Chauchilla differs from other burial sites in the special way in which people were buried. All the bodies are "squatting", and their "faces" seem to be frozen in a wide smile. The bodies are perfectly preserved thanks to Peru's dry desert climate.

Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia

The most infamous feature of Carthaginian religion was the sacrifice of children, mostly infants. It was forbidden to cry during the sacrifice, as it was believed that any tear, any plaintive sigh would detract from the value of the sacrifice. In 1921, archaeologists discovered a place where several rows of urns were found with the charred remains of both animals (they were sacrificed instead of people) and small children. The place was named Tophet.

Snake Island, Brazil

Queimada Grande is one of the most dangerous and famous islands our planet. On it there is only a forest, a rocky inhospitable coast up to 200 meters high and snakes. There are up to six snakes per square meter of the island. The poison of these reptiles acts instantly. The Brazilian authorities have decided to completely ban anyone from visiting this island, and locals tell chilling stories about it.

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

The largest monument in Bulgaria, located on Mount Buzludzha with a height of 1441 meters, was built in the 1980s in honor of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Its construction took almost 7 years and involved more than 6 thousand workers and experts. The interior was partly finished in marble, and the stairs were decorated with red cathedral glass. Now the memorial house has been completely looted, leaving only a concrete frame with reinforcement, similar to a destroyed alien ship.

City of the Dead, Russia

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

Abandoned military hospital Beelitz-Heilstetten, Germany

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

Unfinished subway in Cincinnati, USA

Abandoned subway depot in Cincinnati - project built in 1884. But after the First World War and as a result of changing demographics, the need for the subway disappeared. Construction slowed down in 1925, half of the 16 km line was completed. There are now guided tours of the abandoned subway twice a year, but many people have been known to roam its tunnels alone.

Hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines

On the island of Luzon in the village of Sagada is one of the most frightening places in the Philippines. Here you can see unusual burial structures made of coffins placed high above the ground on the rocks. There is a belief among the indigenous population that the higher the body of the deceased is buried, the closer his soul will be to heaven.

Nuclear lighthouse at Cape Aniva (Sakhalin)

The lighthouse was built with great difficulty in 1939 by the architect Miura Shinobu - it was unique and the most difficult technical facility throughout Sakhalin. It ran on a diesel generator and backup batteries until the early 1990s, when it was re-equipped. Thanks to the atomic energy source, maintenance costs were minimal, but soon there were no funds left for this - the building was empty, and in 2006 the military removed two isotope installations from here that fed the lighthouse. Once it shone for 17.5 miles, but now it has been plundered and fallen into disrepair.

Eighth workshop of the Dagdiesel plant, Makhachkala

Naval weapon test station, commissioned in 1939. It is located at a distance of 2.7 km from the coast and has not been used for a long time. Construction was carried out for a long time and was complicated by difficult conditions. Unfortunately, the workshop did not serve the plant for long. The requirements for the work carried out in the shop have changed, and in April 1966 this grand building was written off from the balance sheet. Now this “Massiv” is abandoned and stands in the Caspian Sea, resembling an ancient monster from the shore.

Lier Sikehus Psychiatric Hospital, Norway

At the Norwegian psychiatric hospital, which is located in small town Lier, half an hour from Oslo, a dark past. Once, experiments were carried out on patients here, and for unknown reasons, four buildings of the hospital were abandoned in 1985. Equipment, beds, even magazines and personal belongings of patients remained in the abandoned buildings. At the same time, the remaining eight buildings of the hospital are still working today.

Gunkanjima Island, Japan

In fact, the island is called Hashima, nicknamed Gunkanjima, which means "cruiser island". The island was settled in 1810 when coal was found there. Within fifty years, it has become the most populated island in the world in terms of the ratio of land and the number of inhabitants on it: 5300 people with a radius of the island itself of one kilometer. By 1974, the reserves of coal and other minerals on Gankajima were finally exhausted, and people left the island. Today, visiting the island is prohibited. There are many legends about this place among the people.

Scary places shrouded in mystery exist all over the world. These objects may be created by humans or inexplicable natural phenomena. People strive to get vivid impressions and travel great distances to see something unusual. Below are ten of the scariest places in the world.

The most terrible places created by people

• Museum of the History of Medicine Dr. Mutter in Philadelphia. It contains all the worst that happens to the human body. The most vile exhibits are the body of a woman, turned into soap after death, and a huge vile human intestine. There are rumors that something strange and terrible is happening in the museum at night.

• Capuchin catacombs in Italy. In ancient times, monks buried their dead brothers here. But environment turned corpses into mummies. It is terrible to see the dead at every step, frozen in different poses. There are also embalmed children in the museum, and the last burial took place in the 90s.

• Beria's house. Now it houses the Tunisian embassy. According to witnesses, twice a month at three in the morning strange sounds are heard near the house. As if a car is driving up, a man gets out of it, slamming the door, says something, then the car leaves.

scariest haunted places

These houses are constantly mysterious phenomena and researchers cannot understand them. Let's start the tour of the haunted houses:

• Chic Winchester mansion in California. It was the home of the widow of William Winchester, the inventor of the famous rifle. According to legend, Sarah was haunted by something terrible in her life. She was advised to build a shelter to hide from the ghosts of people killed by her husband's rifle bullets. The widow built big maze with doors without rooms and stairs leading to a dead end. Tourists talk about fear when visiting the mansion. Museum officials say the house is haunted.

• House of Mirths. It was built in the 18th century by the slave owner Myrtle. It is now a hotel in Louisiana. The comfort of living is violated by murders in the hotel, which the police cannot solve. According to legend, the slave owner had a slave who poisoned people who were objectionable to the owner. Psychics are sure that the house contains the ghosts of a slave and people who died at her hands.

• Belmez house in Spain. On the floors of the rooms of the mansion, clear silhouettes of human faces periodically appear. Then the mysterious contours disappear as unusually as they appeared. Researchers cannot explain the phenomenon.

The scariest places in nature

• Manchak swamps in Louisiana. Gloomy trees terrify a person who has fallen into these parts. The swamps are teeming with alligators. At night, strange flickering lights appear, which the locals call the souls of those drowned in the swamp. Sometimes the bodies of the dead come up. There are rumors of a strange creature that howls terribly at night. There is a legend about a curse that a sorceress placed on the swamp.

• Gates of hell in Turkmenistan. This hole in the ground is almost a hundred meters wide. In the early 1970s, there was an accident at a drilling station. It caused a rupture and leakage of hazardous gases. Specialists burned the gases, but the hole is still burning and the reflections of the fire can be seen from a great distance. It's very dangerous and creepy here.

Visiting scary places guarantees thrills and a test of nerves for strength. Many travel companies offer tours of creepy places, but it is better for a person with a weak nervous system not to go there.