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10 of the most horrible places (10 photos)
Unusual and eerie places on our planet where not all want to go.
1. Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, USA
Mütter Museum - a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits, located in the old trained physicians complex in North America. Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls, collected here and all sorts of unique items, such as the corpse of a woman, which turned into a soap in the land where she was buried. Here Siamese twins with a combined liver, skeleton-headed child and other eerie exhibits.
2. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
A significant part of the Japanese Navy is now at the bottom of a shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, south-west of Hawaii. Blue depths surveyed by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and splashed with fragments of warships and aircraft carriers sunk in 1944, became available for divers. While some people are still afraid crews never left their fighting positions. Ships and aircraft have long grown into the coral reefs, but so far their victims are more and more too curious tourists, popping his nose where it does not.
3. The Witching market Sonora in Mexico City, Mexico
The Witches of Mexico, sitting in cramped cubicles, for 10 bucks promised quick relief from poverty and adultery, and in the cells on the walls of tents hung on sale tortured exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds. Sonora Market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico and tourists from distant places to go for predicting the fate and promises of a better life. This is the place where all the locals pribarahlyaetsya "supernatural" gizmos, from potions to ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Hard-nosed enthusiasts may be able to buy here a little blood rattlesnake or dried hummingbirds for taming luck. But we should remember that witchcraft in Mexico - this is no joke: The National Association of witches was involved in the presidential elections to using spells to turn them into free and fair.
4. Easter Island, Chile
One of the most mysterious places on earth is Easter Island, where there are huge carved stone figures of giants, buried in the ground under the weight of thousands of years. Statues look to the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crimes. And only a stone giants know where people have disappeared, install them. On Easter Island, nobody else knows the secret manufacture and movement, as well as the installation of these giant statues rising to 21 meters and weighing up to 90 tons. But they are often moved for more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked. Now on the island, where once powerful civilization flourished, barely a glimmer of life, and no one knows where did the mysterious builders and where they then disappeared. Well, except, of course, who had read in childhood travel Thor Heyerdahl. For them, all these mysteries - how the statues were made and then placed them - no more.
5. Manchak Swamp in Louisiana, USA
Floating in the swamps by torchlight boats with tourists surrounded by ancient cypress trees and cypress branches hanging from long strands of moss. Howling, who heard far away, may belong to rou-ga-rou - Cajun version of the werewolf.
Marshes Manchak also called "ghosts marshes." Are they near New Orleans, and it's just a dream ready. They say that the swamp voodoo curse the Queen when she was taken prisoner at the beginning of the XX century. As a result, in a hurricane in 1915 there disappeared three villages. Rest of the avian cemetery violated only occasionally pop-up corpses - a legacy business in more than 100 years ago. In addition, alligators, which are more than corpses, not disdain and fresh tourist meat.
6. Paris Catacombs, France
Bones and skulls stacked on both sides of the corridor, as goods in stock - a lot of goods. The air is dry and has a subtle hint of decomposition. There is also an inscription, mainly the Great French Revolution, sending the king and the nobility far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs under Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote his famous story is about these dungeons. They stretch about 187 kilometers under the whole town and only a small part of them open to the public. They say that the other patrols the legendary special underground police, though, is likely to do the legions of the dead. Or vampires. But who will parse them there, at the end of it all. There were a career in the days of the Romans, and when Paris cemetery is full, in 1785 the tunnels have become such as have.
7. The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California, USA
"Magical" Winchester House - a colossal structure, which involves a lot of prejudice. A fortune-teller told Sarah Winchester, the heiress of the weapons that the ghosts of the murdered drives will haunt her if only she did not leave from Connecticut to the West and build a house, that he was not able to finish in her life. Construction began in San Jose in 1884 and ceased 38 years until Sarah died. Now in 160 rooms of the house inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs going straight up at the ceiling, doors that open in the middle of the wall, spidery motives, candelabra, hooks. Since the house was open to the public, are continuously complaints flapping door steps at night, moving lights, door handles that turn themselves. Even if tourists do not believe in ghosts, the place blows the roof in its scale.
9. Occult Telemskoe Abbey in Sicily, Italy
Aleister Crowley - perhaps one of the most infamous occultists in the world, and this stone farmhouse, full of dark pagan murals, was once the capital of the world satanic orgies. At least, so thought in the 1920s.
Crowley is known mainly for his fans the type of Marilyn Manson and the fact that appeared on the cover of the album "The Beatles» Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley founded the Abbey of Thelema, named in honor of utopia described in "Gargantua" Rabelais, whose motto was "Do what you want." It became a commune of free love. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the "Nightmare Room", where pumped heroin and marijuana, they stared at the frescoes of the earth, heaven and hell. After the Abbey died in the popular English dandy, press a scandal and forced to cover Mussolini sharashka. Infamous underground filmmaker Kenneth Endzher in 1945 unearthed the story and directed the film there, which later mysteriously disappeared. Abbey now half destroyed and overgrown with grass. But within a few preserved frescoes, which Crowley intimidate followers. Tourists who are inclined to esotericism can wander and tickle nerves there.
8. The stalemate Mary King in Edinburgh, UK
Several streets with a grim past, hidden under the medieval Old Town in Edinburgh. The place where closed and left to die of plague victims in the XVII century, is famous poltergeist. Travelers here touching the arms and legs something invisible. It is believed that this is the ghost of Annie, a young girl that her parents left there in 1645. One hundred years later, the term that is so in love scary stories on the site of the impasse Mary King built a large new building. In 2003, the deadlock was opened to tourists who are attracted by tales of his supernatural spirits. Trippers hold down the stone steps into the narrow alleys depressing. In addition to the room where Annie restored exposition of medieval life and deaths from the plague. The main thing is not to stop, especially when you feel the icy breath of death.
10. Chernobyl, Ukraine
In Ukraine, arrived in the abandoned town of Pripyat, tourists enter the exclusion zone. Here all things thrown in a hurry and left with the very terrible 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes forever. Unbuttoned disclosed apartment in kindergarten winds along the painted walls of ivy, lying scattered toys on the kitchen table were left lying nedochitannymi newspaper. Swing, still creaking swing in the yard in the gusts of wind dead ... Now, when the radiation level dropped to safe at the time of short-term visit, the Chernobyl zone opened to tourists. Tours to Chernobyl are practically the same as the movement in the exclusion zone severely limited. As a rule, tourists travel from Kiev by bus, then walk up to follow Chernobyl pass on her tour, look at the "Sarcophagus". You can wander through the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the park contaminated vehicles. And also to meet with local squatters, residents of "exclusion zone».
1. Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, USA
Mütter Museum - a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits, located in the old trained physicians complex in North America. Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls, collected here and all sorts of unique items, such as the corpse of a woman, which turned into a soap in the land where she was buried. Here Siamese twins with a combined liver, skeleton-headed child and other eerie exhibits.
2. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia
A significant part of the Japanese Navy is now at the bottom of a shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, south-west of Hawaii. Blue depths surveyed by Jacques Cousteau in 1971 and splashed with fragments of warships and aircraft carriers sunk in 1944, became available for divers. While some people are still afraid crews never left their fighting positions. Ships and aircraft have long grown into the coral reefs, but so far their victims are more and more too curious tourists, popping his nose where it does not.
3. The Witching market Sonora in Mexico City, Mexico
The Witches of Mexico, sitting in cramped cubicles, for 10 bucks promised quick relief from poverty and adultery, and in the cells on the walls of tents hung on sale tortured exotic iguanas, frogs and wild birds. Sonora Market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico and tourists from distant places to go for predicting the fate and promises of a better life. This is the place where all the locals pribarahlyaetsya "supernatural" gizmos, from potions to ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues. Hard-nosed enthusiasts may be able to buy here a little blood rattlesnake or dried hummingbirds for taming luck. But we should remember that witchcraft in Mexico - this is no joke: The National Association of witches was involved in the presidential elections to using spells to turn them into free and fair.
4. Easter Island, Chile
One of the most mysterious places on earth is Easter Island, where there are huge carved stone figures of giants, buried in the ground under the weight of thousands of years. Statues look to the sky, as if guilty of some mystical crimes. And only a stone giants know where people have disappeared, install them. On Easter Island, nobody else knows the secret manufacture and movement, as well as the installation of these giant statues rising to 21 meters and weighing up to 90 tons. But they are often moved for more than 20 kilometers from the quarry where the ancient sculptors worked. Now on the island, where once powerful civilization flourished, barely a glimmer of life, and no one knows where did the mysterious builders and where they then disappeared. Well, except, of course, who had read in childhood travel Thor Heyerdahl. For them, all these mysteries - how the statues were made and then placed them - no more.
5. Manchak Swamp in Louisiana, USA
Floating in the swamps by torchlight boats with tourists surrounded by ancient cypress trees and cypress branches hanging from long strands of moss. Howling, who heard far away, may belong to rou-ga-rou - Cajun version of the werewolf.
Marshes Manchak also called "ghosts marshes." Are they near New Orleans, and it's just a dream ready. They say that the swamp voodoo curse the Queen when she was taken prisoner at the beginning of the XX century. As a result, in a hurricane in 1915 there disappeared three villages. Rest of the avian cemetery violated only occasionally pop-up corpses - a legacy business in more than 100 years ago. In addition, alligators, which are more than corpses, not disdain and fresh tourist meat.
6. Paris Catacombs, France
Bones and skulls stacked on both sides of the corridor, as goods in stock - a lot of goods. The air is dry and has a subtle hint of decomposition. There is also an inscription, mainly the Great French Revolution, sending the king and the nobility far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs under Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote his famous story is about these dungeons. They stretch about 187 kilometers under the whole town and only a small part of them open to the public. They say that the other patrols the legendary special underground police, though, is likely to do the legions of the dead. Or vampires. But who will parse them there, at the end of it all. There were a career in the days of the Romans, and when Paris cemetery is full, in 1785 the tunnels have become such as have.
7. The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, California, USA
"Magical" Winchester House - a colossal structure, which involves a lot of prejudice. A fortune-teller told Sarah Winchester, the heiress of the weapons that the ghosts of the murdered drives will haunt her if only she did not leave from Connecticut to the West and build a house, that he was not able to finish in her life. Construction began in San Jose in 1884 and ceased 38 years until Sarah died. Now in 160 rooms of the house inhabited by the ghosts of her madness: stairs going straight up at the ceiling, doors that open in the middle of the wall, spidery motives, candelabra, hooks. Since the house was open to the public, are continuously complaints flapping door steps at night, moving lights, door handles that turn themselves. Even if tourists do not believe in ghosts, the place blows the roof in its scale.
9. Occult Telemskoe Abbey in Sicily, Italy
Aleister Crowley - perhaps one of the most infamous occultists in the world, and this stone farmhouse, full of dark pagan murals, was once the capital of the world satanic orgies. At least, so thought in the 1920s.
Crowley is known mainly for his fans the type of Marilyn Manson and the fact that appeared on the cover of the album "The Beatles» Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley founded the Abbey of Thelema, named in honor of utopia described in "Gargantua" Rabelais, whose motto was "Do what you want." It became a commune of free love. Newcomers were forced to spend the night in the "Nightmare Room", where pumped heroin and marijuana, they stared at the frescoes of the earth, heaven and hell. After the Abbey died in the popular English dandy, press a scandal and forced to cover Mussolini sharashka. Infamous underground filmmaker Kenneth Endzher in 1945 unearthed the story and directed the film there, which later mysteriously disappeared. Abbey now half destroyed and overgrown with grass. But within a few preserved frescoes, which Crowley intimidate followers. Tourists who are inclined to esotericism can wander and tickle nerves there.
8. The stalemate Mary King in Edinburgh, UK
Several streets with a grim past, hidden under the medieval Old Town in Edinburgh. The place where closed and left to die of plague victims in the XVII century, is famous poltergeist. Travelers here touching the arms and legs something invisible. It is believed that this is the ghost of Annie, a young girl that her parents left there in 1645. One hundred years later, the term that is so in love scary stories on the site of the impasse Mary King built a large new building. In 2003, the deadlock was opened to tourists who are attracted by tales of his supernatural spirits. Trippers hold down the stone steps into the narrow alleys depressing. In addition to the room where Annie restored exposition of medieval life and deaths from the plague. The main thing is not to stop, especially when you feel the icy breath of death.
10. Chernobyl, Ukraine
In Ukraine, arrived in the abandoned town of Pripyat, tourists enter the exclusion zone. Here all things thrown in a hurry and left with the very terrible 1986, when the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes forever. Unbuttoned disclosed apartment in kindergarten winds along the painted walls of ivy, lying scattered toys on the kitchen table were left lying nedochitannymi newspaper. Swing, still creaking swing in the yard in the gusts of wind dead ... Now, when the radiation level dropped to safe at the time of short-term visit, the Chernobyl zone opened to tourists. Tours to Chernobyl are practically the same as the movement in the exclusion zone severely limited. As a rule, tourists travel from Kiev by bus, then walk up to follow Chernobyl pass on her tour, look at the "Sarcophagus". You can wander through the streets of the ghost town of Pripyat and visit the park contaminated vehicles. And also to meet with local squatters, residents of "exclusion zone».
