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7 frightening places on Earth
1. Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia
It is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits.
Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls, collected here and all kinds of unique exhibits. For example, the body of a woman, who turned into a soap in the land where she was buried. Here Siamese twins with a combined liver, skeleton-headed child ...
2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
A significant part of the Japanese Navy is now on the bottom of a shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, south-west of Hawaii.
The 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 are still afraid crews never left their fighting positions.
Ships and planes has long grown into the coral reefs, but so far their victims are more and more too curious tourists, popping your nose where you should not.
3. The Witching of Sonora market 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 for 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 Fortune and promises of a better life. This is the place where all the locals pribarahlyaetsya "supernatural" gizmos, from potions on ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues.
Hardcore enthusiasts may be able to buy here a little blood of a 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, burrowing into 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, no one 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.
5. Manchak Swamp in Louisiana
Flowing through the swamps in the 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 werewolf.
Marshes Manchak also called "swamp ghosts." Are they near New Orleans, and it's just a dream ready.
It is said that the swamp voodoo curse the Queen when she captured 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, the alligators, which are more than corpses, not disdain and fresh tourist meat.
6. Paris Catacombs. France
The bones and skulls stacked on both sides of the corridor, as the goods in stock - a lot of goods. The air is dry and is just a subtle hint of decomposition. Here there is an inscription, mainly the Great French Revolution, sending the king and nobility far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs under Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote his famous stories about these caves.
They stretch about 187 kilometers under the whole town and only a small part of them open to the public. They say that the rest of patrols legendary special underground police, though, is likely to do the legions of the dead. Or vampires.
But who will disassemble them there, in 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. Chernobyl in Ukraine
In Ukraine, came to the abandoned town of Pripyat, tourists enter the exclusion zone. Here are all the things thrown in a hurry and left with the very terrible 1986, when the Chernobyl accident has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes forever.
Unbuttoned disclosed apartment in kindergarten winds on painted walls ivy lying scattered toys on the kitchen table were left lying nedochitannymi newspaper. Swing, still creaking, swaying in the courtyard of the gusts of wind dead.
Now, when the radiation level dropped to safe at the time of short-term visit, the Chernobyl zone opened for tourists. Tours to Chernobyl are practically the same as the movement in the exclusion zone severely limited.
Normally, tourists travel from Kiev by bus, then walk followed before 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".
It is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical equipment and biological exhibits.
Most of all, this museum is famous for its huge collection of skulls, collected here and all kinds of unique exhibits. For example, the body of a woman, who turned into a soap in the land where she was buried. Here Siamese twins with a combined liver, skeleton-headed child ...
2. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
A significant part of the Japanese Navy is now on the bottom of a shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, south-west of Hawaii.
The 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 are still afraid crews never left their fighting positions.
Ships and planes has long grown into the coral reefs, but so far their victims are more and more too curious tourists, popping your nose where you should not.
3. The Witching of Sonora market 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 for 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 Fortune and promises of a better life. This is the place where all the locals pribarahlyaetsya "supernatural" gizmos, from potions on ancient Aztec recipes to Buddha statues.
Hardcore enthusiasts may be able to buy here a little blood of a 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, burrowing into 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, no one 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.
5. Manchak Swamp in Louisiana
Flowing through the swamps in the 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 werewolf.
Marshes Manchak also called "swamp ghosts." Are they near New Orleans, and it's just a dream ready.
It is said that the swamp voodoo curse the Queen when she captured 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, the alligators, which are more than corpses, not disdain and fresh tourist meat.
6. Paris Catacombs. France
The bones and skulls stacked on both sides of the corridor, as the goods in stock - a lot of goods. The air is dry and is just a subtle hint of decomposition. Here there is an inscription, mainly the Great French Revolution, sending the king and nobility far and long. Once you get inside the catacombs under Paris, it becomes clear why Victor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote his famous stories about these caves.
They stretch about 187 kilometers under the whole town and only a small part of them open to the public. They say that the rest of patrols legendary special underground police, though, is likely to do the legions of the dead. Or vampires.
But who will disassemble them there, in 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. Chernobyl in Ukraine
In Ukraine, came to the abandoned town of Pripyat, tourists enter the exclusion zone. Here are all the things thrown in a hurry and left with the very terrible 1986, when the Chernobyl accident has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes forever.
Unbuttoned disclosed apartment in kindergarten winds on painted walls ivy lying scattered toys on the kitchen table were left lying nedochitannymi newspaper. Swing, still creaking, swaying in the courtyard of the gusts of wind dead.
Now, when the radiation level dropped to safe at the time of short-term visit, the Chernobyl zone opened for tourists. Tours to Chernobyl are practically the same as the movement in the exclusion zone severely limited.
Normally, tourists travel from Kiev by bus, then walk followed before 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".
