#1 Kabayan
Kabayan is a collection of man made caves in The Philippines. Each cave
is filled with mummies. Kabayan mummies are some of the best preserved
on earth, and Kabayan is overflowing with them. And there are so many
caves that it's easy to get lost...among thousands of mummies...that
look spry enough to leap right out of their pods.
#2 The Island of the Dolls
Once upon a time, the legends say, a little girl drowned in a canal
surrounding an uninhabited island in Mexico. Days after they found the
body, dolls began to float to the island. No one is 100% sure where the
dolls came from. But today, they hang from trees. Now the area is
nicknamed Island of the Dolls.
#3 The Door to Hell
That's right kids. Hell is a very real place. The doorway leading to it
can be found in Turkmenistan. This literal hell hole was created by
Soviet scientists. When they discovered natural gas in the pit, they
started a fire to burn it off. That fire has been burning for the past
40 years. Not scary enough? Spiders are attracted to the spot and gather
around the door to hell by the thousands.
#4 Hellingly Hospital
Hellingly Hospital in East Sussex, England is a real life insane asylum
straight out of a horror movie. It opened in 1903 and lobotomized and
electrocuted it's patients for 90 years until it was finally shut down.
The building has been abandoned since 1994. Every year, a few
photographers are brave enough to visit Hellingly Hospital. The pictures
are right out a nightmare.
#5 Akodessewa
The Akodessewa Fetish Market may be the best place in the world to fall
prey to a voodoo curse. This fetish market has all of the shrunken heads
and mummified remains that the indigenous people of Togo need to
practice their craft. But it's not all mummies and parts. There are
bones, cauldrons and mysterious potions as well. Tourists have been
officially advised to avoid Akodessewa when at all possible.
#6 The Matsuo Ghost Mine
The Matsuo Ghost Mine haunts northern Japan. It was once the largest
sulfur mine in East Asia. But it was abandoned in the 1970s. Since then,
it's been a ghost town that's shrouded in thick mist. It's so heavy
that sometimes the city of Matsuo is nearly impossible to find.
#7 Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia is a real life Silent Hill. It was once a prosperous mining
town -- until miners accidentally set the mines beneath it on fire. The
coal veins underneath Centralia have been on fire since 1962. Today,
Centralia is abandoned except for the smoke that pours out of the cracks
in the ground. But thrill seekers still visit the ghost town -- just
probably not at night.
#8 Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery
Regular cemeteries are terrifying. But Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery is
11 cemeteries stacked on top of one another. That's 11 times the corpses
laying under your feet. It's also 11 times the creep-out factor.
#9 The Catacombs
Paris doesn't immediately spring to mind when thinking about the
creepiest places on earth. But underneath the croissants and cobblestone
streets are miles of underground tunnels. And those tunnels are filled
with the bones of dead Frenchmen. When Paris' cemeteries began to fill
up, the French simply began to shove corpses away underground. At last
count, there were around 6 million bodies stored in the deep, dank
passageways of Paris.
#10 Aokigahara Forest
Aokigahara is Japan's suicide forest. Walk through it and you run
serious risk of stumbling into a dead body. So many people have
"visited" Aokigahara Forest that park rangers have put up signs that say
"life is precious" and "think of your family." Park rangers still have
to make regular trips into the forest to collect what bodies they can
find. Sometimes, inquisitive tourists stumble upon the sites.
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