Nothing can compare with the grisly beauty of this unique place. Sedlec Ossuary is located in a Roman Catholic chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints. The chandeliers are made up entirely of bones and skulls! Even the coat of arms of the family which commissioned the eerie decorations in the XIX century is made with human bones. In case you don’t find this too unsettling, you can visit the ossuary which is frequented by tourists from around the world.

At first glance, you might think you’re looking at a cemetery but that isn’t the case. This hill in northern Lithuania has been the center of a pilgrimage for centuries. People have been placing crosses there since the Middle Ages and today there are about 100,000 crosses there. If you’re feeling particularly brave, you can take a stroll among the silent forest of ancient crosses or leave behind a cross of your own to make your wish come true.

If you’re a horror movie fan, you will probably think you’ve seen this before but you’d be wrong. The Island of Dolls is real and is located near Mexico City. It’s become quite a tourist attraction in recent years which doesn’t make it any less creepy. Just looking at the dolls hanging sadly from the trees can be enough to send shivers down your spine!

Hashima Island lies about 15 km off the coast of Japan, not far from Nagasaki. The island is completely abandoned and resembles a ghost town. You can walk among the ruins as the corpses of long-abandoned buildings stare emptily and you and hear only the sound of the wind whistle. In case you think you’re hearing voices and whispers, it’s probably time to catch the ferry back to the mainland.

Don’t worry, what you’re seeing on the image above is a natural phenomenon, not a crime scene. It doesn’t make it any less unsettling, though. According to scientists, the phenomenon is at least 5 million years old. The red color is due to the glacier sealing off microbe lake beneath it which led to a high concentration of salt and iron. It’s good we know all that, otherwise we might’ve assumed it was the sign of the impending apocalypse.

Why would someone want to visit the site of the worst nuclear disaster in human history? Today, Chernobyl is a ghost town visited the thousands of tourists each year. The town is literally frozen in time and still looks the same as the day when it was hastily abandoned more than 30 years ago, in the wake of the nuclear disaster at the nearby power plant. You can walk among the abandoned buildings, including kids’ playgrounds, schools, and even an amusement park!

This old hospital located not far from Berlin had served as a tuberculosis sanatorium. The victims of mustard gas in World War I was treated at the hospital, including a young German soldier by the name of Adolf Hitler, who temporarily lost sight as a result of a mustard gas attack. Today, most of the hospital is abandoned and lies in ruins. An ideal setting for a horror movie!

This once-prosperous coal mine in rural Pennsylvania now looks like a gateway to hell! The mine caught fire in 1962 and the flames started to spread underground via linked tunnels. It was only the beginning, however. Since the accident 50-foot-deep sinkhole appeared in one resident’s backyard and a boy nearly fell into it. Most of the residents have left the town as a result. If you happen to pass by, you can still see the smoke rising out from the ground.

This small island located in the Venetian lagoon has been dubbed the ‘Most Haunted Island in the World’ and there’s a good reason for that. Centuries ago, the island was used to separate those suffering from contagious diseases and keep them away from the rest of the population. Plague victims were shipped off to the island and forgotten. As if that was not enough, a mental hospital was build on the island in the 1920s. Poveglia Island has numerous mass graves where the victims were buried and even the soil itself is a mixture of dirt and human ashes! Not exactly an ideal place for a picnic.

You may be wondering how exactly can a statue of Jesus become creepy? It can if it’s located in the bottom of the sea and was erected as a sort of a memorial at the spot where a diver had died back in the 1950s. The statue is overgrown with algae and corroded which makes it both a fascinating and eerie sight to behold.

Nobody could have ever dreamed that this school in Tuol Sleng, Cambodia, would be turned into a prison. It wasn’t an ordinary prison, however. At least 14,000 people died in Tuol Sleng, many as a result of horrific torture. Small wonder that many consider the former prison to be haunted by the ghosts of its former inmates.

Craco must have been a picturesque village back in the day but nowadays it’s little more than a spooky ruin. The village has been abandoned since the 1960s and is reportedly haunted. Officially, natural disasters were the reason behind the abandonment, though one can easily see why many still consider the village to be the site of paranormal activities.

There’s something disquieting about abandoned prisons, don’t you agree? Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania was operational from 1829 until 1971. When it first opened it was a state-of-the-art prison, as well as one of the first buildings in America to have central heat and running water. But that didn’t make the prison a pleasant place, quite the opposite. Prisoners were kept in solitary confinement and isolation and the practice was known as the ‘Pennsylvania System’. The prison has been reduced to a crumbling ruin but remains a tourist attraction. People claim it to be haunted, of course.

Not everyone is keen on burying their dead six feet underground. The folk in Sagada, a small town in the Cordillera Mountains, Philippines, bury their dead in coffins which appear to be hanging from cliffs! In fact, the coffins are attached to cliffs and were carved out by the people who were buried in them. This type of burial is a long-running tradition, dating back thousands of years. Just looking at the coffins (from a safe distance) is both awe-inspiring and disturbing at the same time.

Here’s a bazaar unlike any other you’ll ever see anywhere in the world. Don’t bother visiting it unless you’re a voodoo priest. The Lome Bazaar offers all kinds of ingredients necessary to practice black magic. Freshly slaughtered animals, skeletons, and other body parts can all be found in this grisly market.

If you thought that hell is not real, think again. Hell is real and you can access it by a door in the middle of the Karakorum Desert in Turkmenistan. This 230-foot-wide crater seems to be perpetually burning. It’s not a natural phenomenon, however, but a result of human activity. The crates was formed back in 1971 when scientists accidentally hit a methane reserve while searching for oil. It caused the drilling platform to collapse and form the crater. Methane got released into the air, prompting scientists to light the crater but it didn’t quite turn out as they had imagined. The crater has been burning ever since creating a truly hellish phenomena!

The park was created in the 1950s by a local attorney who claimed he had received a message from God. Holy Land was envisaged to be a miniature replica of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, as well as other noteworthy locations mentioned in the Bible. Something went horribly wrong and despite its initial popularity, the park closed in the mid 80s. You can see it while driving on the Route 8 or I-84 through Waterbury and if you feel particularly daring you can go explore the now abandoned amusement park – and encounter a few ghost hunters along the way.

If you ever happen to be staying at Palermo, make sure you pay a visit to the world’s most expansive and fascinating catacombs! These underground tombs contain more than 8,000 bodies, many of which have been mumified. You can easily get lost in the winding corridors deep under ground with no one else but corpses to keep you company! The corpses are displayed in upright positions dressed in their best clothes and present a macabre spectacle.

As soon as pass the gates of Auschwitz bearing the infamous inscription ‘Work sets you free’, you’ll feel the evil energy of the place that was the sight of the worst genocide in human history. It’s not for the faint-hearted, Auschwitz remains a depressive and gloomy place even after nearly eight decades after it had been liberated by the Allies. A monument to human cruelty, Auschwitz is one of the scariest places on earth.

Would you ever dare to set foot on an island that can boast of having the greatest concentration of snakes per square meter in the whole world? Snake Island lies some 90 miles off the coast Sao Paolo. The island is, in many ways, similar to Jurassic Park, the only difference between the two being in that the former is inhabited not by dinosaurs but by deathly vipers! The snakes on this island have evolved differently from snakes in the mainland and are even more deathly! Fortunately, the public is banned from visiting the island by the government.

Britain is officially the most haunted country in the world, a position which the country owns to its many medieval castles. Chillingham castle stands out as the most haunted castle in Britain. According to visitors, voices of two men can be heard in the chapel but no one can ascertain where do voices come from. You can go on a ghost tour that are held during the whole year, though we would not recommend staying at the castle for the night.

Up to 4,000 patients had once been locked up at the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, as it was known officially. The thick red walls look ominous and what happened behind them was even more so. Nearly 50,000 people had died at the asylum, only a few of them from natural causes. The morgue is still relatively intact, as is the crematorium where they disposed of the bodies of those who had died at the asylum. Feel free to visit the now decrepit asylum if you’re in the mood for getting creeped out.

Highgate cemetery is one of the best known cemeteries in all England. It contains the graves of world-famous figures such as Karl Marx, George Michael, and countless others. Naturally, this old cemetery is also haunted. All sorts of spooky sightings have been recorded at the cemetery, including that of a ghost nun and an old woman desperately searching for her kids. Even without the hauntings, Highgate is an eerie place, overgrown and full of decrepit tombs and large Victorian funerary monuments. It might be a good source of inspiration if you happen to be a Gothic horror writer.

Changi Beach is without a doubt the most haunted beach in Singapore. It is one of the oldest beaches and Singapoure and was the sight of the bloody Sook Ching massacre, a mass execution of the local Chinese by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Headless bodies can be seen walking on the beach and the voices of dying soldiers crying out for help can be heard. Not exactly an ideal beach to go sunbath on!

A string of mysterious deaths has transformed the Monte Cristo Homestead from an idyllic country retreat into the most haunted house in Australia. The deaths at Monte Cristo include a young child died who fell from the stairs, caretakers who were found butchered within the premises, and a stable boy who burned to death. The ghosts of the maid who fell from the balcony and the stable boy are still seen wandering about the property. It’s best to give this place a wide berth if you ever find yourself in the vicinity. Better safe than sorry!

Edinburgh Castle was the seat of Scottish kings of queens for centuries. As such, it’s probably the most iconic landmark in Edinburgh and the castle still looms over the city. Having such rich history is bound to produce some good old ghost stories. Edinburgh castle has no shortage of hauntings. Its most famous ghost is the Headless Drummer and there’s also a Piper who haunts the corridors beneath the castle.

The Tower of London remains one of the oldest structures still in use in the UK. It was built by William the Conqueror after his conquest of England nearly a thousands years ago. During the Middle Ages, the Tower was a royal prison and if you were sent there, chances were that you would never leave again it alive. Most famously, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, wives of King Henry VIII, were beheaded at the Tower. Numerous sightings of their ghosts have been reported over the years. If you’re lucky, you may even encounter the gloomy ghost of the King himself, still brooding over his failed marriages.

You’re going to have a hard time falling asleep tonight after we tell you the story behind this tunnel’s name. Many years ago, a young girl hid inside the tunnel to escape her father, a violent drunk. Her ghost is still haunting the tunnel to this day. If you wander into the tunnel and light a wooden match you can hear her scream. We wonder if anyone tried to do it and lived to tell the story.

Spending the night at this house is something only the bravest can consider. A series of tragic events has transformed the Borley Rectory into of the most haunted houses in England. This house in a sleepy Essex parish has been haunted by numerous ghosts, including that of a floating nun!

Thousands of slaves perished while constructing this railway bridge over the Kwai River during WWI. The bridge on the Kwai River is a popular tourist resort today, located near the quiet little town of Kanchanaburi. The railway itself still serves as a vivid reminder of brutal reality of war and the men and women who toiled to death to build it.

The Stanley Hotel served as inspiration to Stanley Kubrick’s classic horror movie ‘The Shinning’. If you still decide to book a room at the Stanley Hotel, don’t be surprised if you encounter two twin girls holding hands and playing in the corridor, or hear the sound of a 1920s music coming from the ballroom at an ungodly hour of the night. No matter what you do, don’t come close to room #418.

Chances are that you’ve never heard of this castle before but you almost certainly heard of Count Dracula. Bram Stoker, who created the most famous vampire of all times found inspiration in a real historical figure, Vlad the Impaler, who was the Duke of Wallachia, a part of modern-day Romania, during the Middle Ages. Bran was Vlad’s castle where he reportedly imprisoned and tortured many people. The castles grim walls and high towers hide a dark history and no one knows what may be lurking in the forest that surround it!

Witches, solstices, and weird pagan orgies somewhere out in the wild, far from everyone’s sight, it all sounds like an ideal scenario for a horror movie. Sometimes, however, reality can be scarier than any horror movie! Pendle Hill in Lancashire has been frequented by all sorts of shady people since the Middle Ages and they all have one thing in common: black magic. This is the place you go to when you want to communicate with spirits and enhance your mystical powers. Not a place to be for us common people.

A favorite location for those who dabble in the occult, Stull Cemetery is believed to be the place where Satan’s son was burried. According to the local legend, Satan visits the cemetery every year during Halloween, exactly at midnight. We don’t know whether the story is true or not but we doubt there’s anyone willing to find out.

This old prison is where scenes from ‘Shawshank Redemption’ were filmed. Abandoned since 1990, the prison is now an empty shell and the cells where inmates had served their long sentences are now exposed to the elements. Paranormal activity has been reported in the prison which, according to the locals and visitors, is haunted by the ghosts of its former inmates.

People who have visited this cemetery swear that it’s haunted. As is the case with other haunted places we’ve included in this list, La Recoleta cemetery can be considered beautiful, in a special, eerie way. The cemetery contains over 6,400 statues, sarcophagi, coffins, and crypts and it also the final resting place of one of Argentina’s best-known figures – Evita Peron.

Imagine taking a walk in the woods and running into a bunch of naked human figures in unusual poses. You’d probably have a feeling that you’ve accidentally discovered a secret site used by a cult for strange and dark rituals. These figures are nothing of the sort. They were created by a Finnish artist Veijo Rönkkönen and attract thousands of tourists each year. There’s definitively something creepy about these figures, at times you feel like you’re being monitored. You wouldn’t want to be caught near them at night!

An abandoned mental hospital can’t be a happy place. As you walk down the empty corridors you can almost feel the misery of the people who were locked up there. It doesn’t even have to be haunted to be creepy!

This town located in Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio, is abandoned but still inspires numerous spooky stories. There are all sorts of rumors about why the town has been abandoned. While some of them claim that the government had evacuated the town as a result of a toxic chemical spill, others mention a Satanic cult. Whatever the case, Helltown is an eerie place to visit.

The town was evacuated after an epidemic but the rumor has it that a little girl can still be seen roaming in the deserted streets, trying to find her way back home, or a way to cross over to the other side! Eyam remains a point of interest for tourists who are keen to find out more about its mysterious past and the plague outbreak which forced the villagers to enact a quarantine to stop the disease from spreading.

Here’s the perfect evidence that nature can be way scarier than ghosts or other paranormal phenomena. The winding North Yungas Road is one of the most dangerous in the world. This treacherous road is no wider than 10 feet and was responsible for many deaths until 1994. Driving down this road is an extremely perilous journey. Passengers face landslides, cascades, and cliffs that drop 2,000 feet. North Yungas Road is a natural destination for thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies from around the world.

The cold wastes of Siberia guard many secrets. This deserted mine is certainly one of them. The mine is the second-largest man-made hole in the world but that’s not what makes it unique. The air-space above the mine is said to be off-limits after several helicopters have reportedly been ‘sucked in’.

This castle in the picturesque Loire Valley would’ve been an ideal place to visit if it weren’t for the ‘Green Lady’, a vengeful ghost that haunts the premises and causes visitors to run away in terror. Those who dared to look at her face with empty holes instead of eyes immediately fainted or suffered nervous breakdowns. It’s still worth a visit if you can avoid an encounter with the Green Lady, that is.

Built in the 17th century, Castle of Good Hope still inspires its visitors today. The castle has a bloody history, as it was built by slave labor and was later used as a prison. Guards have reported mysterious footsteps down the abandoned stairways and bodiless screams echoing through the corridors. Perhaps those imprisoned within the castle’s thick walls have never left and are still trying to find a way out.

These eerie catacombs hold the remains of 6 million Parisians whose bones are piled up in a subterranean structure which resembles a labyrinth. Millions of bones of Paris’ dead inhabitants were moved to these tunnels shortly before the French Revolution from the city’s overcrowded cemeteries. The sight of millions of human remains tightly packed into a series of underground tunnels is breathtaking and scary at the same time.

Romanians call this forest the ‘Bermuda Triangle of Romania’ with a good reason. The forest is infamous for causing headaches, rashes, and burns in people who dare to visit it. Many visitors also feel like they’re being watched. There should probably be a reward for spending the night in the forest, providing that make it out alive.

What’s more creepy than visiting a ruined old castle in the middle of nowhere? If that alone isn’t enough to give you the chills, there’s always the ghost of an elderly lady who haunts the fort. She’s far from being the only apparition at Fort George. Several visitors have reported seeing a soldier in uniform and a man in a red cloak. Other visitors have complained of nausea and sudden gusts of wind in closed spaces. Do you still want to book a tour?

This ruined medieval castle was where the horror movie ‘Nosferatu’ was filmed. However, that’s nothing compared to the fact that Cachtice Castle had once belonged to Countess Elizabeth Bathory, now considered to be the most prolific female serial killer in history. The precise number of Bathory’s victims remains unknown and she died in the castle as a prisoner. If that isn’t chilling we don’t know what is.

Port Arthur prison is located on Tasman Peninsula, Australia, and was built to house convicts from all corners of the British Empire during the colonial era. Mass graves of former inmates are located on the premises. The prison was a place of immense suffering and still looks threatening today.

This lovely town in the remote corner of New England owes its fame to the Salem Witch Trials, the best-known which hunt in US history. Salem Witch Trials have been an inspiration for countless books and movies over the years. If you decide to visit Salem, we recommend you take a ghost tour, a guided journey through the town by candlelight, a spooky experience which will stay in your memory for a long time!