10 scariest places in the world

There are a huge number of beautiful places that everyone would like to visit, but along with them there are also very creepy and scary places that are also very popular with tourists. Present to your attention 10 scariest places in the world.

10 Chernobyl, Ukraine

Chernobyl in Ukraine opens top ten scariest places on the planet. Today, tourists can go to the abandoned city of Pripyat and see the exclusion zone. Thousands of people fled their homes after the disaster at the Chernobyl reactor. Toys abandoned in day care centers and newspapers left on dining tables come into view. The disaster area is now officially allowed to visit – the level of radiation is no longer dangerous. Bus tours start in Kyiv, then tourists visit the nuclear reactor, see the sarcophagus and head to the abandoned city of Pripyat.

9. Abbey of Thelema, Silicia

Aleister Crowley is probably the most famous occultist in the world. This terrible place, replete with dark pagan frescoes, was intended to be the world capital of satanic orgies. Crowley appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sergeant Peper’s Lonely Hearts Club. He founded the Abbey of Thelema, which became a community of free love. Director Kenneth Unger, a follower of Crowley, made a film about the abbey, but the film later mysteriously disappeared. Now the abbey is almost completely destroyed.

8. Dead End Mary King, Edinburgh

In the medieval part of the Old Town in Edinburgh, there are several streets with a disgusting and gloomy past. This eerie place, where the victims of the plague were supposed to die in the seventeenth century, became known thanks to the poltergeist. Tourists who visit this supernatural place claim that something invisible is touching their hands and feet. Locals say that this is the soul of the girl Annie, which her parents left here in 1645. A hundred years later, a large building was built at the cul-de-sac. The dead end was opened to tourists in 2003.

7. Winchester House in San Jose, California

There are many myths and prejudices around this colossal structure. One day, a fortune-teller predicted to arms factory heiress Sarah Winchester that ghosts would haunt her all her life, so she must leave Connecticut and go west and begin building a huge house there, which should last her whole life. Construction began in 1884 and was not completed until Sarah’s death in 1938. Now the house is inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs that rest against the ceiling, doors at the height of the middle of the wall, chandeliers and hooks. And even those who do not believe in ghosts claim to have seen or heard something inexplicable in this house. This house is ranked seventh in our ranking of the top 10 scariest places on the planet.

6. Catacombs of Paris

The Parisian catacombs were ranked sixth on our list. scary places on earth. All the walls of the long corridor of the catacombs are tiled with bones and skulls. The very dry air keeps them from even a hint of decay. As you enter these catacombs beneath Paris, you begin to understand why Ann Rice and Victor Hugo wrote their famous novels about these dungeons. Their length is about 187 kilometers along the entire city, and only a small part of them is available for visiting. It is said that the legendary underground police keep order in the catacombs, although the legions of vampires and zombies would suit this place more.

5. Manchak Swamp, Louisiana

This scary place is also known as the swamp of ghosts. It is located near New Orleans. Legend has it that it was cursed by a Voodoo Queen while she was imprisoned there in the 1920s. Three small villages nearby were razed to the ground in 1915.

4. Easter Island, Chile

Perhaps this place is one of the most mysterious places in the world. This island has gained worldwide fame thanks to the giant stone sculptures, looking at the sky, as if begging him for mercy. And only the stone of these statues knows who their creators were. No one on the island is familiar with the art of sculpture. No one imagines how it was possible to make statues twenty meters high and weighing ninety tons. Among other things, the statues were supposed to be delivered twenty kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked.

3. Black Magic Bazaar in Sonora, Mexico

Opens the top three most terrible places on earth black magic bazaar in Sonora. Plenty of witches sit in tiny booths and offer to lift you out of poverty and adultery for as little as ten dollars. Numerous Mexican and foreign tourists flock to this market every day, wanting to know something about their future. There you can buy mysterious potions, snake blood and dried hummingbirds to tame good luck.

2. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia

The bulk of the Japanese Navy now rests at the bottom of this lagoon, southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. The entire bottom of this lagoon, explored by Jacques Yves Cousteau in 1971, is littered with fragments of warships sunk in 1944. This is a scary place attracts many divers, although many are afraid of the ship’s crews, who forever remain at their combat posts. Fighter planes and aircraft carriers became coral reefs, and many divers who descended to explore these reefs never returned from their underwater journeys.

1. Mütter Museum of the History of Medicine

The Mütter Museum of the History of Medicine ranks first in our ranking of the most terrible places on the planet. This museum was founded to educate future doctors of human anatomy and anomalies of the human body. It features various pathologies, antique medical instruments, and biological oddities. The museum is primarily known for its extensive collection of skulls. It also contains unique exhibits, such as the body of a dead woman, turned into soap in the grave. Also there you can see Siamese twins sharing one liver for two, the skeleton of a two-headed boy and other terrible things.