Creepy Places on Earth

Door to Hell” – Derweze, Turkmenistan
A natural gas field that Soviet engineers tried to burn off in 1971 has been burning constantly since then, and doesn’t appear that it will ever stop. When the Devil comes to Earth, it’ll probably be through here.





The Island of the Dolls – Mexico
This tiny island near Mexico City was inhabited by a recluse named Julián Santana Barrera who hung up the discarded dolls he found floating in surrounding river for 50 years to appease the spirit of a girl who drowned nearby which he said haunted him until he died of a heart attack near the same river.





Capela dos Ossos – Évora, Portugal
The “Chapel of Bones” was built by a (super weird) monk in the 1500’s who decorated the building with the bones of an estimated 5,000 of his fellow monks. If that’s not creepy enough, two bodies hang from the ceiling, and one them is a child.





Grand Hotel Prishtina – Pristina, Kosovo
The marquee hotel in in Kosovo’s capital isn’t so “grand” anymore. During the brutal Balkan Wars of the 90’s, Serbian militants used the hotel as a place for the torture and execution of their prisoners.





Catacombs of Paris
The network of tunnels under the City of Lights is over 200 miles long and is home to an estimated over 6 million bodies. Some parts of the catacombs are open to the public as an official museum, but other sections are off limits, yet are visited illegally by thousands of curious tourists and local troublemakers.





Aokigahara Forest – Japan
The beauty of this forest near the base of Mount Fuji, belies its nickname as the Suicide Forest. For over 60 years, about 100 people have killed themselves in the forest each year. It’s a severe problem in Japan that local authorities aren’t sure how to stop.





Hanging Coffins – Sagada, Philippines
Local tribes practice the custom of mounting their dead’s coffins on a cliff-face in hopes that they will be closer to heaven.





Ilha da Queimada Grande, Brazil
Another small island, but with much scarier inhabitants. Off the coast of Brazil, the tiny “Snake Island” is home to an estimated 4,000 Golden Lancehead Vipers, and is the only place in the world these extremely venomous snakes can be found. The only people who dare visit the uninhabited island are the occasional scientists who are truly brave souls.





Poison Garden – Alnwick, England
In this section of the famed Alnwick Garden, you definitely don’t want to stop and smell the roses because they could kill you. Added in 2005 as a bit of a tourist attraction, the garden’s plants are toxic and poisonous, and grown for educational purposes.





St. George’s Church – Lukova, Czech Republic
Artist Jakub Hadrava ironically brought some life back to this abandoned Czech church by installing plaster sculptures of ghosts. Tourists from all over the world come to see the spooky specters.





San Zhi Resort – Taiwan
Construction of the resort outside of Taipei was halted after a series of mysterious accidents and suicides. People said the calamities were caused from bad luck due to the destruction of a Chinese dragon statue during construction and/or possibly the site being an old burial ground for Dutch soldiers.





Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia became a ghost town in the early 80’s after an underground mining fire began releasing toxic gases. Today, 10 of the town’s residents have decided to stay and live out the rest of their lives in quarantine.





West Virginia State Penitentiary
This prison has been home to over 100 executions.





Poveglia, Italy
Known as “Plague Island”, Poveglia was a place of forced quarantine for plague victims from 1793 to 1814 that numbered about 160,000. Their mass graves are still there. Perhaps even more morbid, the island would later be home to a mental hospital whose doctor did strange experiments on patients before killing himself because he said he was being haunted by ghosts.





Sanctuary of Tophet, Tunisia
Ancient Tunisians would sacrifice thousands of children during hard times.





Akodessewa Market, Togo
In Togo, where many people still practice the indigenous religions, there’s no better place to buy your monkey heads than the Akodessewa Market….”Akodessewa Monkey Heads: We don’t monkey around with our quality.”




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